Chaplain, podcaster, and religion scholar George Schmidt joins us to talk William Blake, the support found in reading, and Star Wars galore!
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Manny Warman, Columbia University Bicentennial panel exhibition on banned books [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Columbia University Archives and Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
Saul D. Alinsky
Rules for Radicals
Richard Attenborough
Shadowlands
Augustine of Hippo
James Baldwin / Nikki Giovanni
Soul! Interview
Lynne Reid Banks
The Indian in the Cupboard
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Gregory Bassham
The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy
William Blake
Murray Bookchin
Lenny Bruce
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
Charles Bukowski
"The Crunch"
Edward T. Chambers
Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice
The Charlie Daniels Band
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
Cyberpunk
Rodney Dangerfield
Gilles Deleuze
"Postrscript on the Societies of Control"
The Doors
Dungeons and Dragons
Warren Ellis et al.
Transmetropolitan
Allen Ginsberg
Wayne Glausser
Rod Hilton
"The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order"
Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception
Nicholas Hytner
The History Boys
Vasily Kandinsky
John Keats
Elias L. Khalil
"Making Sense of Self-Deception"
Emmanuel Levinas
C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
George Lucas et al.
Star Wars
George R. R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire series
Julie E. Maybee
"Hegel's Dialectics"
China Miéville
John Milton
John Cameron Mitchell
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Alan Moore
Jerusalem
José Esteban Muñoz
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Jean-Luc Nancy
New Criticism
Reinhold Niebuhr
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marjorie Perloff
Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
Marjorie Perloff
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
Marjorie Perloff
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
Jordan Peterson
Todd Phillips
Joker
Plato
The Republic
Religion & Justice podcast
Bruce Rogers-Vaughn
Barb Rosenstock / Mary GrandPré
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sheldon S. Wolin
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
William Wordsworth
