Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy?
Modernity strives to break with the past, especially genealogy. However, is it possible for a society to break a genealogical thread? In this episode, we explore the meaning and value of genealogy, a ...
15 Nov 202347min
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity? with Michael Puett
We often think of modernity as a time period in history. But people have been claiming to be modern since at least c. 550 AD, when the Roman writer Cassiodorus used the term modernus to mark off every...
1 Nov 202339min
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Mountain Modernity
For the past three years, Ryan has been working with an interdisciplinary group of scholars to produce a narrative podcast about Genealogies of Modernity. Today's episode is a sneak preview of the fir...
18 Okt 202349min
What's Wrong with the Modern World? with Ryan McDermott on SpirituallyIncorrect
This episode is brought to us by SpirituallyIncorrect: We all love a good story. We watch movies, listen to friends talk about their last vacation, or listen to podcasts (this one included) just to he...
12 Okt 20231h 3min
Rerun: Race and American Christianity with Anthony Bradley
Anthony Bradley is a professor of religious studies and director of the Center for the Study of Human Flourishing at the King's College in New York City. He gives a personalist analysis of the crimina...
20 Sep 20231h 14min
Teaching Happiness with Tal Ben-Shahar
If happiness is to be had, it must be studied. Tal Ben-Shahar acted on this belief when he created the Master's of Arts in Happiness Studies in partnership with Centenary University, through which stu...
6 Sep 202336min
AI and Faith with David Brenner
Can faith leaders, steeped in tradition, contribute anything to the conversation of ever-new artificial intelligence? What if the questions they are asking are the same? When David Brenner realized th...
23 Aug 202358min
Progressing toward Apocalypse with Mary Harrington
If chickens can't act as chickens and humans can't act as humans, Western civilization is not making progress. So observes Mary Harrington, contributing editor for Unherd and most recently, author of ...
9 Aug 202346min
