Luke Burgis and Angela Duckworth are watching the same traffic move in opposite directions, and this hour is the first time they've worked it out in the same room.Burgis, founder of the Cluny Institute, author of Wanting, and a teacher at Catholic University's Ciocca...
Can technology be leveraged for the human good? Or will AI technology and its explosive expansion bring about the opposite—a culture that reduces our magnificent humanity to means for technocratic ends? Brian Patrick Green has spent his career asking these difficult...
What does it take to rehumanize our common life in a moment of cultural fragility, institutional collapse, and crisis of trust? Recorded at the Washington National Cathedral for Comment magazine's inaugural Understory Festival, this roundtable asks how culture,...
American history is riddled with collisions between legally defensible rulings and morally costly outcomes. Still, “the purpose of law in any society is to embody a moral framework in practice,” says Yuval Levin, who joins Mark Labberton to explore the moral...
Whether we know it or not, economics shapes almost every part of our lives - where we live, whether we can afford children, how much time we have with the people we love, and even the choices we think are available to us. But most of us rarely stop to ask what...
Biologist Jeffrey Schloss—longtime Westmont College professor and senior scholar at BioLogos—offers an intimate, scientifically precise account of his recent diagnosis with multiple system atrophy, a rare, terminal, and rapidly progressive neurological disease....
As we come to the 250th celebration of America’s founding, what is happening in our country? Pundits, writers, historians, political scientists, and average citizens are all trying to take stock of where we are as a nation. In this episode, we seek perspective by...
The final episode sets Quebec's law inside two larger models for managing pluralism: French republicanism, which emphasizes a common culture and the general will, and Anglo liberalism, which emphasizes individual conscience and the recognition of difference. It traces...
This episode maps the debate not as two sides but as four schools of thought. Two support Bill 21 from different premises: universalist republicans, who see laïcité as an Enlightenment defense of neutrality and women's equality, and conservative republicans, who see...
This episode follows laïcité from news controversy to the center of Quebec politics. Beginning with the reasonable-accommodations stories of 2006 and the Hérouxville "code of conduct," it examines the Bouchard-Taylor Commission's finding that the province faced a...
Overcoming the compulsions of our society is less about deadening desire and more about acquiring a taste for reality.
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