In this episode we’re going to talk about some things that will get you kicked out of polite society. It’s progressive and fashionable these days to talk about the Patriarchy and the oppression of women, their hard-won equality from the shackles of home life, and the immense sexual power than men wield over women in…
Cryptocurrency is a complicated subject to grasp well. Currency alone is something everyone understands, but add all the other terms into the mix—cryptography, decentralization, nodes, distributed ledgers, public and private keys, etc—and the average citizen either panics or gets glossy-eyed. Robert Beadles has written a very basic, entry-level overview of what cryptocurrency is, how it…
My guest for episode 12 is Dr. Gordon Wilson, professor of biology at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. In his new book, A Different Shade of Green, he argues that Christians have gotten environmentalism wrong. We’ve tended to fall into a couple extremes–one of supreme indifference as an overreaction to the earth-worshipping activist…
“…life is either totally meaningful or totally meaningless, depending on what death is. Therefore we had better try to find out what death is.” So begins Peter Kreeft in a book that is basically him thinking methodically through the concept of death. He argues that death plays a number of roles to us: Death as…
Today’s guest is George Gilder, a prolific author, economist, investor, and techno-futurist. In the 1970s Gilder wrote a controversial book about gender roles in society, originally titled Sexual Suicide, but later revised and reissued under the title Men and Marriage. In the 1980s, as an articulator and defender of Supply-Side Economics, he became known as…
Phillip Johnson wrote this in 1997 to equip students for the intellectual battle over evolution in philosophy and science. While it discusses a few scientific points, the primary focus is on the philosophical naturalism that often undergirds evolution-affirming science (and which often remains unacknowledged), and how to challenge it. That question–is philosophical naturalism necessarily and inextricably tied…
We’re going to dive right into a really fascinating book that I think you’ll find very stimulating and enriching. Darwinism is a fascinating topic on many levels. On one hand, it’s recognized throughout the world as the leading–perhaps the only acceptable–theory of how earth and its inhabitants came to be. Its assumptions permeate the media,…
Most people understand science as a clean, straightforward discipline that progresses in a linear fashion, as each generation builds upon the previous’ discoveries and research, inexorably culminating into a more complete understanding of the physical world. Kuhn shows this to be an utter misconception. Traditional, mundane, day-to-day science involves answering obscure and/or secondary questions within…
In this episode Seth and Josh discuss Alan Jacobs’ recent book, “How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds.” Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and a Resident Fellow of Baylor’s Institute for the Studies of Religion. He has written widely on…
