"If The Old Institutional And Moral Safeguards Of A Nation Are Forgotten, Then The Anarchic Impulses In Humanity Break Loose"

We recorded this show before the chaos began in Washington, surrounding the Electoral College certification; it just wasn’t that hard to see what was coming.

Our thrust: the richness of the intellectual tradition of conservative thought is being squandered. What passes, in unexamined conversation and in lazy journalism, as “conservatism,” is not. “Repubican” does not mean “conservative.”

Conservatism, with its sober view of human nature, would understand that leaders who lead people astray with falsehood, sow seeds of unrestrained violent passion. Order is not given; it is cultivated, and needs tending.

Our show pushes back against the unexamined, often unconscious ways that we frame public questions using political or economic modes of thinking. We aim to be part of a growing movement of people who are critical of the narrowness of political and economic categories, and who want to revive a vision of human flourishing that is grounded in the wisdoms of theological and moral philosophical tradition. We see these habits and ways of thinking as being pre-political, and foundational to a healthy and civil shared life in families, communities, economies, and polities.

In short, we want to foster conversations, develop habits, and create communities that are grounded in curiosity, going deep, and shining light.

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