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Take the Shot PodFinal 4, Taylor Jenkins Fired, Outstanding Performances, Changes That I Would Make To The NBAIn this episode Nick goes solo. I start off with my thoughts on the final 4 and historically implications for Cooper Flagg if Duke is able to win the championship. Then I share some some of my thoughts on LeBron. I address the firing of Taylor Jenkins and the Memphis Grizzlies. After I go through some of the big performances lately and address playoff implications. Finally I go through possible changes I would make to solve tanking in the NBA and other general changes as well.2025-04-0451 min
BallGame PodcastLeBron VS. Stephen A BEEF, How Good Is Cooper Flagg, HEATED Ja Morant DebateOn today's podcast the boys give their opinions on the LeBron VS. Stephen A beef, discuss March Madness and where Cooper Flagg ranks amongst former number 1 picks, and react to the Grizzlies firing Taylor Jenkins and what it means for Ja MorantDownload the DraftKings app and use code GAMEDAYGOLF to play FREE for a shot at the $1 million top prize with just a $10 deposit! That's code GAMEDAYGOLF—for all DraftKings customers. The Crown Is Yours.https://dkng.co/GAMEDAYGOLFGambling Problem? Call one eight hundred gambler. In New York, call eight seven se...2025-04-022h 00
The NBA Guru ShowKings Buckle Against the Pacers and How Hyped is Cooper Flagg?In this episode, we recap the Kings vs. Pacers game and dive into the hype surrounding Cooper Flagg, comparing him to other No. 1 prospects of the last 25 years. We also discuss who you'd rather have for the next 5 years: Cooper Flagg or another top player in the league. Plus, we react to Taylor Jenkins’ firing and its impact on the team.(00:00) Kings-Pacers Rebuild(20:50) Comparing Cooper Flagg to Past # 1 Picks (36:35). Cooper or ________ for Next 5 Years?(56:40) Taylor Jenkins Firing 2025-04-011h 05
Moore to the StoryWas This Rookie Class Underrated? Cooper Flagg's Best Team Fits and Recap of The Past Week of BasketballMe and Fudgy are back!!! I took a week off due to my move to a new house, but me and Fudgy are back with a whole lot of basketball to talk about in an eventful last 2 weeks of hoops. First we started off talking about the now UNDERRATED 24/25 rookie class that was supposed to be one of the worst classes ever,. We then talk about Cooper Flagg's best team fits for next years draft, as he is the clear number 1 pick. We then rap up the pod recapping the last week of the NBA and the major storylines...2025-04-0159 min
3 the HardawayGrizzlies FIRE Taylor JenkinsThe Big 3 discuss the Grizzlies firing Taylor JenkinsSubscribe to our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCqag5-yPsLz_F3nMAltcStA Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/3theHardawayPodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@3thehardawaypodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/3thehardawaypod/Audio Podcast Platforms: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/3-the-hardaway0:00 Start of Show5:30 Marvin Sapp Wants 40K13:25 NBA Trivia16:25 Does the NBA Need Cooper Flagg to Win the Natty?20:55 Taylor Jenkins Fired58:00 Sixers E-Dash Tour1:02:28 Nets E-Dash Tour2025-04-011h 08
Run It BackGrizzlies Fire Head Coach Taylor Jenkins Plus Timberwolves Pistons BrawlOn the March 31, 2025, episode of Run It Back on FANDUEL TV LIVE, co-hosts Michelle Beadle, Lou Williams, and Chandler Parsons discuss the shocking firing of Grizzlies Head Coach Taylor Jenkins. The crew also covers the massive brawl between the Timberwolves and Pistons, as well as Kevin Durant's recent injury. To wrap up the show, the panel debates whether Cooper Flagg will become the best player to ever come out of Duke.2025-03-3148 min
Fox Sports RadioMark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Talk Russ to the Giants, Sirianni's Message, Flagg's Duke Legacy & More!Mark Willard and former NFL offensive tackle Ephraim Salaam open the show with a little story time, as Ephraim recounts a great weekend of coaching his youth basketball team. Then it's straight down to business — the guys react to a wildly effective debut for the Yankees' brand new style of bats. Then they get into some NBA talk, reacting to a brawl between the Pistons and Timberwolves before moving to a recent press conference from commissioner Adam Silver, a conspiracy theory from the Lakers, the Grizzlies firing Taylor Jenkins, the beef between LeBron and Stephen A. Smith, and much mo...2025-03-312h 00
OVERALL with Andrew Jerell JonesOVERALL Weekend: Taylor Jenkins FIRED by the Grizzlies; How we predicted that Stephen A's wild response to LeBron; Cooper Flagg to prevent an all-SEC Final 4?; What will the Giants do with the No.3 pick?Sending you into the final weekend of March 2025 in proper style. The wild breaking news over March Madness becoming COOP Madness for Cooper Flagg, but will Duke be part of the group that stops SEC Final Four domination? Meanwhile, John Calipari found another way to blow a tournament victory that was in his team's hands. After the Giants signed Russell Wilson, who will they pick at 3 for the 2025 NFL Draft? And of course, more of the aftermath at LeBron causing Stephen A to lose his damn mind all over the place. You can't have a full weekend party without...2025-03-292h 46
The VolumeNerd Sesh - Grizzlies FIRE Taylor Jenkins, Thunder keep getting better, Bulls legit?The nerds react to some shocking NBA news after the Memphis Grizzlies fired head coach Taylor Jenkins with the playoffs only weeks away. Then, they break down how Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren and the Oklahoma City Thunder have gotten even better, discuss whether or not they're buying hot streaks from the Chicago Bulls and Houston Rockets, and rank their Top 5 NBA Draft prospects, from Cooper Flagg to Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. Timestamps 00:00:23 - Grizzlies fires Taylor Jenkins 00:09:42 - OKC’s hot streak without J-Dub 00:26:06 - Sold on the Bulls young co...2025-03-291h 37
Nerd SeshNerd Sesh - Grizzlies FIRE Taylor Jenkins, Thunder keep getting better, Bulls legit?The nerds react to some shocking NBA news after the Memphis Grizzlies fired head coach Taylor Jenkins with the playoffs only weeks away. Then, they break down how Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren and the Oklahoma City Thunder have gotten even better, discuss whether or not they're buying hot streaks from the Chicago Bulls and Houston Rockets, and rank their Top 5 NBA Draft prospects, from Cooper Flagg to Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. Timestamps 00:00:23 - Grizzlies fires Taylor Jenkins 00:09:42 - OKC’s hot streak without J-Dub 00:26:06 - Sold on the Bulls young co...2025-03-291h 37
Rowan Radio SportsAND1 - LeBron vs Stephen A, Taylor Jenkins, Tankathon, and NCAA March MadnessJoin your hosts Aidan Dougherty and Nick Rizzo, as they are joined by Greg Mazzo and Aidan Rea to talk about the recent firing of Memphis Grizzles Head Coach Taylor Jenkins, LeBron vs Stephen A Smith, the Philadelphia 76ers being tank risers, Cooper Flagg, and NCAA March Madness.
2025-03-2859 min
The Just Basketball ShowCooper Flagg’s March Moment and Drafting Players Likely to Win MVP in the Next Five YearsRight now, the MVP is led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic. But who could hop into the picture in the next five years? On a new episode of the Just Basketball show, Chris Manning and Wes Goldberg start by talking about Cooper Flagg’s play against Arizona and why it reaffirms why he’s been worth tanking for. Then, they look at LeBron and the Lakers’ recent play and if it’s any cause for concern before drafting players who could win MVP in the next five seasons after this one, the NBA’s best trash talkers and...2025-03-2858 min
The ALL NBA PodcastTaylor Jenkins FIRED, Josh Giddey & the Bulls beat the Lakers, PLUS Cooper Flagg justifies the tank | ALL NBA PODCASTTim Legler and Adam Mares break down the biggest NBA stories, including the Bulls’ wild comeback win over the Lakers, capped by Josh Giddey’s half-court buzzer-beater. What’s behind Chicago’s resurgence, and can they make the playoffs? Plus, is the Giddey-Caruso trade a rare win-win? Luka Doncic’s shooting struggles and defensive lapses continue to impact the Lakers, while breaking news hits as the Grizzlies fire Taylor Jenkins. How much is Ja Morant’s evolving playstyle to blame for Memphis’ struggles? The guys also discuss potential NBA coaching openings this summer and analyze Cooper Flagg’s NBA potential, compa...2025-03-2859 min
Query & CompanyLet The Madness Begin! Taylor Tannebaum, Will Buxton, and Tony East Join!Query & Company Rundown 03/20/25 (00:00-23:25) – Query & Company opens on a Thursday with Jake Query and producer Eddie Garrison welcoming everyone to the best time of the year, March Madness! They start the program by discussing another shaky Indiana Pacers win last night over the Dallas Mavericks. Additionally, they weigh in on some of the chatter following Darian DeVries press conference about the timeline of IU reaching out to him about the job. (23:25-31:49) – The NTT IndyCar Series returns to action this weekend in California. Jake and Eddie are trying to connect with Will Buxton to preview it...2025-03-202h 07
College Basketball Show With Jim Dunaway and Taylor KornDuke’s Cooper Flagg or Auburn’s Johni Broome: Who is More DESERVING of National Player of the Year?On this week’s Friday episode of The Basketball Show, Jim Dunaway and Taylor Korn discuss… Which players we feel like we need to see MORE from on both Auburn and Alabama rosters SEC coaches, players, or fans stock up and stock down Who is more DESERVING of National Player of the year? Duke’s Cooper Flagg or Auburn’s Johni Broome? Some of Alabama’s big wins have started to lose a lot of games — is this reason for concern in terms of Alabama’s schedule? Visit the TNR store: https://nextround.store/See omnystudio.com...2025-02-0727 min
Two For OneSixers Collapsing, Flagg's Best Fit, Rockets On The RiseDion and Mitch project Cooper Flagg's fit in the NBA with the teams currently leading the tank race before discussing the Houston Rockets' future decisions about the core pieces of their roster. Thanks for listening!2024-11-2552 min
OVIES & GIGLIOOG 264: ACC ready for Duke's Cooper Flagg show? | ACCN's Tannenbaum on FSU, Miami & Clemson | IC's Vippolis on state of the HeelsJoe Ovies and Joe Giglio open the show sorting out the ACC hoops schedule, which will very much be all about Duke and Cooper Flagg. That also means UNC will have another year where they can "go under the radar". As for NC State? Just depends on what the expectations are coming off a Final Four run. Ovies and Giglio get in the mood for college basketball by revisiting some old clips of Chris Paul and JJ Redick. They get back to football with ACCN's Taylor Tannenbaum, debating whether Clemson is truly back and whether Miami is a legit...2024-09-251h 29
The New ThinkeryFlagg Taylor on Jan Patočka's The Spiritual Person & the IntellectualThis week, Alex and Greg delve into Jan Patočka's 1975 essay "The Spiritual Person & the Intellectual," exploring its profound insights on the nature of human existence and the role of intellectuals in society. Joined by Flagg Taylor of Skidmore College, the group examine Patočka's challenge to modernity and his vision for a more spiritually grounded intellectual life, as well as recounting relevant points in his personal life, including his death at the hands of communists.2024-08-1457 min
Enduring InterestSPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #8: Season Four Wrapup with Alex Duff, Yuval Levin and Jonathan RauchToday we bring you the final episode in our series on speech and censorship. We wrap up a series by bringing back guests from previous episodes to discuss the broader themes and dilemmas that have persisted over the course of the series. In this conversation we discuss if and how making distinctions among different kinds of speech might improve our ability to navigate the dilemmas around free speech. We discuss the recent phenomenon of campus protests and this extent to which this sort of activity should be protected in higher education. And we wonder if the idea of self-restraint is g...2024-06-051h 01
Evangelization & Culture PodcastVáclav Havel & The Power of the Powerless w/ Flagg Taylor Crushed under an oppressive Communist regime in twentieth century Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel decided that enough was enough. Taking to his pen, the playwright and dissident crafted essays that changed the landscape of resistance. Join me and Professor Flagg Taylor as we unpack Stories and Totalitarianism and The Power of the Powerless, two of Havel’s penetrating essays that still have enduring impact to this very day. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the Evangelization & Culture Podcast biweekly on WordOnFire.org, on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. You...2024-05-281h 36Enduring InterestSPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #7: Rochelle Gurstein on her book The Repeal of ReticenceThis month we continue our series on speech and censorship by discussing an extraordinary book published in 1996, The Repeal of Reticence: America’s Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art. It’s terrific book of political, social, cultural history and analysis. It covers an amazingly broad range of topics, from 19th century literary sensibilities to early 20th century Supreme Court obscenity jurisprudence to the midcentury New York public intellectual scene. Its author, Rochelle Gurstein, sketches two broad, cultural movements: the party of reticence and the party of exposure. Our conversation is devoted to elucidating the...2024-05-011h 20Enduring InterestSPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #6: Alexander Duff on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance"This month we continue our series on speech and censorship by discussing a famous critique of free speech from the left. My guest and I dig into Herbert Marcuse’s famous essay and try to make sense of its critique of tolerance and free speech. We discuss Marcuse’s background and role as a leading thinker of the New Left. We also analyze Marcuse’s goal of liberation or autonomy, his understanding of the relationship between speech and action, his use of the term totalitarian, and his understanding of the duty of the intellectual.Our guest is Professor Alexan...2024-03-271h 02Enduring InterestSPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #5: Michael Zuckert on James Madison's "Report of 1800"This month we continue our series of episodes on speech and censorship. We discuss James Madison’s “Report of 1800,” a document in which Madison discusses the controversies around the Alien and Sedition Acts. Madison’s report contains fascinating reflections on the nature of speech in a republic and why the Sedition Acts in particular are inconsistent with free government. His ideas have some surprising resonances with some of our contemporary debates about free speech. Our guest is Michael Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is currentl...2024-02-141h 06Enduring InterestSPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #4: Jenna Silber Storey on Pierre Manent and Political SpeechThis month our topic is a recent essay by Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey called “Political Speech in Divided Times,” first published in National Affairs in Fall of 2022. The essay is a reflection on the particular character of political speech and its authors make use of the work of the contemporary French political philosopher named Pierre Manent. The books by Manent most relevant to this essay are The Metamorphosis of the City and Beyond Radical Secularism.We are pleased to have one of the authors join us for this conversation, Jenna Silber Storey. Jenna and I discuss what...2024-01-171h 06Enduring InterestSPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #3: Yuval Levin on Walter Berns and Irving Kristol on the Case for CensorshipWith our December episode we continue our series on speech and censorship. We take up two essays which make the case for a particular kind of censorship: Walter Berns’s “Pornography v. Democracy: The Case for Censorship” and Irving Kristol’s “Pornography, Obscenity and the Case for Censorship.” Berns’s essay was published in The Public Interest in the winter of 1971 and Kristol’s in The New York Times Magazine in March 1971. Our guest is Yuval Levin, who’s the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel C...2023-12-131h 03Enduring InterestDaniel Mahoney on Raymond Aron’s Last Lecture: Liberty and EqualityHere at Enduring Interest we are in the midst of exploring books and essays that address the question of speech and censorship. Forthcoming episodes will discuss authors including Walter Berns, Irving Kristol, Herbert Marcuse, James Madison, and Pierre Manent. However, this month we’re pausing on that theme to discuss a newly published book by the great French thinker and writer Raymond Aron. On April 4, 1978 Aron brought his academic career to close with a final lecture at the College de France. It has been translated into English and brought out by Princeton University Press with the title of Liberty and Eq...2023-11-131h 17
Spe Salvi Institute PodcastF. Flagg Taylor IV: Totalitarianism and The Lives of Others (2006)In this episode, Andrew and Bobby talk to Flagg Taylor about Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) and anti-Communist dissidents in Czechoslovakia and Poland (e.g. Vaclav Benda and Czesław Miłosz).
2023-11-1154 min
Granite Justice PodcastSupporting survivors: Dove Project Coordinator Taylor Flagg shines light on domestic violence and stalking victim servicesTaylor Flagg, program coordinator of 603 Legal Aid Dove Project, has been working since May towards the goal of improving services for domestic violence and stalking victims in New Hampshire. Shane Cooper talks with her about the lack of resources in New Hampshire and what she has been doing and will continue to do to improve that.
This podcast is being done in partnership with NH Legal Aid (visit 603LegalAid.org), Granite State News Collaborative and produced by GSNC partner The Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communications at Franklin Pierce University. Please remember as you listen, this pod...2023-10-2324 minEnduring InterestSPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #2: James Stoner on Willmoore Kendall’s ”The ’Open Society’ And Its Fallacies”John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty has been a consistent and prominent reference point in the ongoing debates about free speech. In this episode we discuss an elegant and powerful critique of Mill by the twentieth century political theorist Willmoore Kendall. His essay “The ‘Open Society’ and Its Fallacies” was published in the American Political Science Review in December of 1960. Our conversation covers various aspects of Kendall’s critique. Kendall claims that Mill’s argument for freedom rests on a false conception of the nature of society and human nature itself. We explore Kendall’s understanding of Mill’s thoroughgoing radicalism. “Mill...2023-10-111h 04
The Liberty ExchangeHavel on Authenticity, Responsibility, and FreedomWhen ideology overtakes thinking for oneself—who is to blame? Is the state solely responsible, or do many of us outsource our moral responsibility to ideology? According to Václav Havel, the line between ruler and ruled might be less apparent than we think.To close out this week celebrating the 10th anniversary of Havel’s Place, Libertarianism.org Director Jonathan Fortier is joined by Flagg Taylor, Associate Professor of Political Science at Skidmore College. They discuss Havel’s varied range of influences and contemporaries, the spiritual depravations of planned economies, and what it means to live au...2023-10-0638 min
Off Guard with Austin RiversWhy Each Team Won With the Dame Trade, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Reactions, and a Lost in the Sauce Test | Off GuardAustin and Pausha react to the blockbuster Damian Lillard trade and talk through why this is a rare triple win for all three teams involved (0:32). Then, they hit on the Travis Kelce–Taylor Swift relationship news (25:52) and likely NBA prospect Cooper Flagg’s UConn photo shoot. They wrap things up with Lost in the Sauce, a new segment that puts both guys’ NBA history knowledge to the test (53:51).Hosts: Austin Rivers and Pausha HaghighiProducers: Erika Cervantes and Ben Cruz Learn more about your ad choice...2023-09-281h 12
The Ringer NBA ShowWhy Each Team Won With the Dame Trade, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Reactions, and a Lost in the Sauce Test | Off GuardAustin and Pausha react to the blockbuster Damian Lillard trade and talk through why this is a rare triple win for all three teams involved (0:32). Then, they hit on the Travis Kelce–Taylor Swift relationship news (25:52) and likely NBA prospect Cooper Flagg’s UConn photo shoot. They wrap things up with Lost in the Sauce, a new segment that puts both guys’ NBA history knowledge to the test (53:51).Hosts: Austin Rivers and Pausha HaghighiProducers: Erika Cervantes and Ben Cruz Learn more about your ad choice...2023-09-281h 14Enduring InterestSPEECH AND CENSORSHIP #1: Kindly Inquisitors with Jonathan RauchEnduring Interest is very pleased to launch our series on speech and censorship with this conversation on Jonathan Rauch’s Kindly Inquisitors, first published in 1993 and reissued in 2013 with a new afterword. We discuss Jonathan’s conception of “liberal science,” or the liberal intellectual system’s approach to sorting truth from falsehood. He suggests this is arguably liberalism’s greatest achievement yet seems always under attack from a variety of quarters. We discuss the fundamentalist and humanitarian threats to free speech, focusing most of our attention on the latter. Can speech cause harm? If yes, why should one not limit it? We compa...2023-09-151h 05Enduring InterestLIBERAL EDUCATION #7: Roundtable with Corey, Koganzon, & the ZuckertsTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. This episode concludes our series on liberal education. We have three of our previous guests in the series back to discuss some common themes in the work of Leo Strauss, Michael Oakeshott and Hannah Arendt. We have Michael and Catherine Zuckert, Rita Koganzon, and Elizabeth Corey all returning to the podcast for the discussion. Topics include the place of reverence and tradition in liberal e...2023-09-041h 01Enduring InterestLIBERAL EDUCATION #6: Henry Bugbee, “Education and the Style of our Lives” with Joseph M. KeeginTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In this episode we discuss a short essay by the philosopher Henry Bugbee, “Education and the Style of our Lives.” Bugbee taught for a number of years at the University of Montana. This short, beautiful and thought-provoking essay was occasioned by a report that a commission presented to the Montana legislature. In just over nine pages, Bugbee lays out the core of education as seen...2023-09-011h 16Enduring InterestLIBERAL EDUCATION #5: Zena Hitz, Jonathan Marks, and Roosevelt Montás on Liberal EducationTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. This month we are pleased to bring you a special episode that departs from our normal path. For the past several months, we’ve been looking at forgotten or neglected books and essays on liberal education. We’re very excited to bring you this conversation with three authors who’ve all written recently published books on liberal education. We have Zena Hitz, author of LOST IN...2023-08-281h 24Enduring InterestLIBERAL EDUCATION #4: Elizabeth Corey on Michael Oakeshott’s ”A Place of Learning” and ”Learning and Teaching”To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. This month our subject is Michael Oakeshott. We discuss two essays in particular: “A Place of Learning” and “Learning and Teaching.” Both essays can be found in the volume The Voice of Liberal Learning. Our guest is Elizabeth Corey of Baylor University. Elizabeth begins by providing a brief intellectual biography of Oakeshott. The bulk of our conversation takes up Oakeshott’s conception of liberal learning. H...2023-08-251h 02
Valley Sports Plug Podcasts 🔌Summer Slammin' Feat. Ray Taylor of SlamBall's Team Buzzsaw - Pass The Outlet E13Valley Sports Plug Hosts Chris Patrick and Michael Benjamin discuss the beautiful game of basketball🏀On This Episode:*Ray Taylor of Slamball's Team Buzzsaw breaks down his experience during the rebooted 2023 season*FIBA World Cup & Bahamas DominAyton*Summer Time Grind & Dbook Signature Shoe Reveal?!?📝We'll also break it down with The Outlet Point Guard and dive into the news with Reddit Reacts‼🎥(00:00:00) Pass The Outlet Intro (Follow Us @AZ_VSP)(00:02:21) Special Guest Interview: Ray Taylor - SlamBall Team Buzzsaw(00:33...2023-08-241h 01Enduring InterestLIBERAL EDUCATION #3: Pavlos Papadopoulos on Eva Brann’s Paradoxes of Education in a RepublicTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. This month we’re pleased to present a conversation on Eva Brann’s book Paradoxes of Education in a Republic. Brann serves as a tutor at St. John’s College—she’s the author of many books and Paradoxes was published in 1979. Our guest is Pavlos Papadopoulos—himself a graduate of St. John’s and now an assistant professor of humanities at Wyoming Catholic College. Brann’...2023-08-211h 10Enduring InterestLIBERAL EDUCATION #2: Rita Koganzon on Hannah ArendtTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In this episode Rita Koganzon and I discuss two essays by the philosopher Hannah Arendt: “Crisis in Education” and “Reflections on Little Rock.” The former was first published in Partisan Review in 1958 and the latter in Dissent in 1959. Rita gives an account of the context for the two essays and how they are related. We discuss Arendt’s critique of a number of progressive educational...2023-08-181h 11Enduring InterestLIBERAL EDUCATION #1: Michael and Catherine Zuckert on Leo Strauss’s “What is Liberal Education?” and “Liberal Education and Responsibility”To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. With this episode Enduring Interest moves into a new series on the subject of education. In the coming months we will be hearing from guests on authors including Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Eva Brann, Michael Oakshott, and others. Leo Strauss once wrote, “I own that education is in a sense the subject matter of my teaching and my research.” Yet, as Michael and Catherine Zucke...2023-08-141h 27Enduring InterestTOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #7: Roundtable with Cavanagh, Howland, Link & PontusoTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In this episode I speak with four previous guests on the podcast (Clare Cavanagh, Jacob Howland, Perry Link, and James Pontuso) and take up the question of the relationship between art and totalitarianism. We consider the fate of artistic inquiry and expression under totalitarian regimes both past and present. Why and how have totalitarian regimes sought to control all forms of art. How successful w...2023-08-111h 28Enduring InterestTOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #6: Nathan Pinkoski on François Furet’s The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism of the Twentieth CentTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. Nathan Pinkoski, Research Fellow and Academic Director at the Zephyr Institute, and I discuss François Furet’s terrific book The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism of the Twentieth Century—first published in English in 1999. We talk a bit about Furet’s biography—he’s regarded as one of the greatest historians of the French Revolution. Like many French intellectuals who came of age...2023-08-071h 00Enduring InterestTOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #5: Clare Cavanagh on the poetry of Czeslaw MiloszTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In this episode I speak with Clare Cavanagh, Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She’s the author of a forthcoming authorized biography of Czeslaw Milosz and a prize-winning translator of the poets Adam Zagajewski and Wislawa Szymborska. Her essays and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review, the...2023-08-041h 18
Winds Of ChangeEcotourism Adventures: A Conversation with Kevin Taylor“Moving to Colorado was like coming home to a place I'd never been before.” - Kevin Taylor Join host Emy diGrappa and co host Lucas Fralick and Chloe Flagg as they delve into the world of ecotourism and wildlife conservation with Kevin Taylor, a passionate guide at Teton Science Schools. Discover the fascinating intelligence of animals and their surprising use of humans for protection, while exploring the controversial debates and tough decisions that surround the conservation efforts of this vast ecosystem. Our special guest is Kevin Taylor Meet Kevin Taylor! Hailing from Illinois, Kevi...2023-08-0336 min
Winds Of ChangeEcotourism Adventures: A Conversation with Kevin Taylor“Moving to Colorado was like coming home to a place I'd never been before.” - Kevin Taylor Join host Emy diGrappa and co host Lucas Fralick and Chloe Flagg as they delve into the world of ecotourism and wildlife conservation with Kevin Taylor, a passionate guide at Teton Science Schools. Discover the fascinating intelligence of animals and their surprising use of humans for protection, while exploring the controversial debates and tough decisions that surround the conservation efforts of this vast ecosystem. Our special guest is Kevin Taylor Meet Kevin Taylor! Hailing from Illinois, Kevi...2023-08-0336 minWinds Of ChangeEcotourism Adventures: A Conversation with Kevin Taylor“Moving to Colorado was like coming home to a place I'd never been before.” - Kevin Taylor Join host Emy diGrappa and co host Lucas Fralick and Chloe Flagg as they delve into the world of ecotourism and wildlife conservation with Kevin Taylor, a passionate guide at Teton Science Schools. Discover the fascinating intelligence of animals and their surprising use of humans for protection, while exploring the controversial debates and tough decisions that surround the conservation efforts of this vast ecosystem. Our special guest is Kevin Taylor Meet Kevin Taylor! Hailing from Illinois, Kevi...2023-08-0336 minEnduring InterestTOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY#4: James Pontuso on Václav Havel’s Audience, The Unveiling and ProtestTo lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In this episode I speak with James Pontuso, the Charles Patterson Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at Hampton Sydney College, about Václav Havel’s trilogy revolving around the remarkable character Ferdinand Vaněk. We discuss Havel’s life as a playwright, dissident, and statesman and the immediate context in which these plays were written—the “normalization” regime in post-1968 Communist Czechoslovakia. Havel wrote the fir...2023-07-311h 02Enduring InterestTOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #3: Daniel J. Mahoney on Raymond Aron’s ”The Opium of the Intellectuals”To lead into the next season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In this episode I speak with Daniel J. Mahoney, Professor and Augustinian Boulanger Chair in the Department of Political Science at Assumption University, about The Opium of the Intellectuals by the great French political thinker Raymond Aron. Dan argues that Aron was the leading French political thinker of the 20th century. Aron’s expertise transcends our intellectual subdivisions—he wrote substantial works in the field...2023-07-281h 03Enduring InterestTOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #2: Perry Link on ”China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier”To lead into the third season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In this episode I speak with renowned China scholar Perry Link, the Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside, about his now classic 2002 essay “China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier.” We discuss the origins of the essay and its initial reception, as well as Professor Link’s blacklisting and why this was actually a kind of liberation. We dig into th...2023-07-241h 08Enduring InterestTOTALITARIANISM AND IDEOLOGY #1: Jacob Howland on Yevgeny Zamyatin’s WETo lead into the third season of Enduring Interest, we're re-releasing our first two seasons, covering totalitarianism and ideology and liberal education. We'll be back on September 8 with a new season covering free speech and censorship. In the inaugural episode of Enduring Interest, I speak with Jacob Howland, McFarlin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Tulsa, about Yevgeny Zamyatin’s great dystopian novel WE. Jacob and I talk about Zamyatin himself—his early commitment to the Bolshevik cause in the early 1900s and his disillusionment following the revolution of 1917. The novel was written in 1920 but was suppressed in Russi...2023-07-2154 minEnduring InterestPamela Jensen on Rousseau’s Letter to d’AlembertHere’s the second episode in our occasional series on lesser-known works by authors of acknowledged classics. We discuss Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Letter to d’Alembert on the Theater. D’Alembert published an article on Geneva for the Encyclopédie in 1757 which included a recommendation that Geneva should have a theater. Rousseau soon took up his been to argue against his friend’s proposal. “In so doing,” wrote Allan Bloom, “Rousseau presented as complete a treatment of the arts in relation to politics as has ever been produced.” This conversation includes an overview of Rousseau’s remarkable career, an introduction to the context for th...2023-05-151h 28
The American IdeaContemporary Conversations: Censorship and Banned BooksJeff and Flagg Taylor, of Skidmore College, discuss the thorny topic of censorship and its two main forms, that from the government, and that coming from individuals. Starting with a deep discussion of Soviet Russia’s totalitarian approach to what is acceptable literature and speech, they move through a history of limitations on speech, and what the last century of this can mean for us today, and the “cancel culture” moment we are enduring.Give a listen to Flagg’s podcast, Enduring Interest, where he and guests discuss forgotten books and literature.Host: Jeff SikkengaExe...2023-03-2254 minEnduring InterestFred Bauer on Norman Podhoretz’s Making ItThis month we discuss Norman Podhoretz’s memoir Making It. The book was first published in 1967 and then was reissued in 2017 by the New York Review of Books. Making It was controversial upon publication—friends like Jason Epstein even warned Podhoretz against publishing it. Making It chronicles Podhoretz’s rise from Jewish Brooklyn, to Columbia University, on to Cambridge University, and then to joining the exclusive community of New York Intellectuals. He frames his story with the themes of success, American identity, and the intellectual life. Our conversation here takes up all of these themes and a few more. We discus...2023-03-061h 18Enduring InterestElizabeth Amato on William Alexander Percy’s Lanterns on the Levee: Reflections of a Planter’s SonThis month we discuss William Alexander Percy’s memoir, Lanterns on the Levee, first published in 1941. Percy lived a full and extraordinary life, beautifully captured in this book. A native of Greenville, Mississippi, Percy writes as a witness of the “disintegration of that moral cohesion of the South.” He was by turns a teacher, lawyer, poet, soldier, planter and adoptive father. We discuss Percy’s portrait of the class dynamics of the south, race relations, the emergence of populist political currents, his experiences in the first World War, and his peculiar aristocratic stoicism. We conclude with some reflections on how Will Per...2023-02-061h 09Enduring InterestMatt Dinan on Aristotle’s social virtuesWith this episode Enduring Interest inaugurates a new occasional series on chapters or parts of great books which tend to be ignored or not much talked about. Matt Dinan is back to discuss a series of brief and fascinating chapters in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics on the social virtues: gentleness, friendliness, truthfulness and wittiness. Check out Matt’s essay “Be Nice,” first published in the Fall 2018 issue of The Hedgehog Review, where he touches on some of these virtues. Matt is an associate professor in the great books program at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He does research...2022-12-2352 min
The Moral ImaginationEp. 49 Flagg Taylor, Ph.D: The Parallel Polis In this episode I speak with Flagg Taylor about the life and writing of Vaclav Benda, and his idea of the parallel polis, decentralization, and creating space in society for culture, the family, charity, education, and human flourishing. Though he was writing under communist regimes, Benda’s writings are very relevant today in light democratic pressures to conformity, de-platforming, and especially as a new ontology of the person is being written into law — and dignity is used as weapon against religious and cultural liberty. Benda’s idea of the parallel polis was not a siege mentality, nor so much a refo...2022-12-221h 43The Moral ImaginationEp. 49 Flagg Taylor, Ph.D: The Parallel Polis In this episode I speak with Flagg Taylor about the life and writing of Vaclav Benda, and his idea of the parallel polis, decentralization, and creating space in society for culture, the family, charity, education, and human flourishing. Though he was writing under communist regimes, Benda’s writings are very relevant today in light democratic pressures to conformity, de-platforming, and especially as a new ontology of the person is being written into law — and dignity is used as weapon against religious and cultural liberty. Benda’s idea of the parallel polis was not a siege mentality, nor so much a refo...2022-12-221h 43Enduring InterestGreg Thomas on Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old PlaceOur subject for this episode is Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place. Part memoir, part travelogue, part dialogue with a range of interlocutors, this book is remarkable for both its variety and depth. Murray travels from Harlem to New Haven and then down south to Tuskegee and Mobile and beyond. Murray chats with the likes of Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percy and meditates on the themes of home, history, place, and myth. Our guest and I discuss Murray’s life and the peculiar nature of this wonderful book. We explore Murray’s critique of social science and hi...2022-11-171h 15Enduring InterestJennifer Delton on George S. Schuyler’s Black No MoreIn 1931 George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) published his novel Black No More: Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. It’s a satirical romp that takes up the race obsessions of various constituencies in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. The book is deeply funny and the humor is meant to provoke some serious thought about the costs and consequences of the racialist thinking that Schuyler thought infected all corners of social and political thought in the United States. Before taking up the no...2022-10-191h 11Enduring InterestMarc Conner and Lucas Morel on Ralph Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” and “What America Would be Like Without Blacks”Ralph Ellison wrote one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. He was also a gifted essayist and in this episode we discuss two essays in particular: “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” and “What America Would be Like Without Blacks.” The former was first published in The American Scholar in the Winter 1977/78 issue. In my view it’s one of the finest meditations on American identity ever written. That latter first appeared in Time magazine in April of 1970. They both appeared in a collection called Going to the Territory in 1986 and can also be found in The Collec...2022-09-061h 12Enduring InterestRoundtable on the Work of Arendt, Oakeshott, and Strauss on Liberal EducationThis episode concludes our series on liberal education. We have three of our previous guests in the series back to discuss some common themes in the work of Leo Strauss, Michael Oakeshott and Hannah Arendt. We have Michael and Catherine Zuckert, Rita Koganzon, and Elizabeth Corey all returning to the podcast for the discussion. Topics include the place of reverence and tradition in liberal education, the authority of the teacher, and the purpose or purposes of liberal education. See our previous episodes for the bios of these guests.2022-05-131h 01Enduring InterestHenry Bugbee, “Education and the Style of our Lives” with Joseph M. KeeginIn this episode we discuss a short essay by the philosopher Henry Bugbee, “Education and the Style of our Lives.” Bugbee taught for a number of years at the University of Montana. This short, beautiful and thought-provoking essay was occasioned by a report that a commission presented to the Montana legislature. In just over nine pages, Bugbee lays out the core of education as seen from the standpoint of both teacher and student. He seeks the revitalization of a dialogue that brings text and world together—experience is illuminated and meaning is discovered. The piece was published in Profiles, the magazi...2022-04-071h 16Enduring InterestZena Hitz, Jonathan Marks, and Roosevelt Montás on Liberal EducationThis month we are pleased to bring you a special episode that departs from our normal path. For the past several months, we’ve been looking at forgotten or neglected books and essays on liberal education. We’re very excited to bring you this conversation with three authors who’ve all written recently published books on liberal education. We have Zena Hitz, author of LOST IN THOUGHT: THE HIDDEN PLEASURES OF AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE; Jonathan Marks, author of LET’S BE REASONABLE: A CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION; and Roosevelt Montás, author of RESCUING SOCRATES: HOW THE GREAT BOOKS CHANGED M...2022-03-101h 24Enduring InterestElizabeth Corey on Michael Oakeshott’s ”A Place of Learning” and ”Learning and Teaching”This month our subject is Michael Oakeshott. We discuss two essays in particular: “A Place of Learning” and “Learning and Teaching.” Both essays can be found in the volume The Voice of Liberal Learning. Our guest is Elizabeth Corey of Baylor University. Elizabeth begins by providing a brief intellectual biography of Oakeshott. The bulk of our conversation takes up Oakeshott’s conception of liberal learning. He argues it is neither the acquisition of cultural knowledge or information nor the improvement of the mind. It is rather “learning to recognize some specific invitations to encounter particular adventures in human self-understanding.” Elizabeth and I discuss...2022-02-091h 02Enduring InterestPavlos Papadopoulos on Eva Brann’s Paradoxes of Education in a RepublicThis month we’re pleased to present a conversation on Eva Brann’s book Paradoxes of Education in a Republic. Brann serves as a tutor at St. John’s College—she’s the author of many books and Paradoxes was published in 1979. Our guest is Pavlos Papadopoulos—himself a graduate of St. John’s and now an assistant professor of humanities at Wyoming Catholic College. Brann’s vision of education is a bibliocentric one, rooted in reading the great books. Such an education’s purpose, as Pavlos articulates Brann’s vision, is to take up and read the worlds of knowledge, nature an...2022-01-101h 10Enduring InterestRita Koganzon on Hannah ArendtIn this episode Rita Koganzon and I discuss two essays by the philosopher Hannah Arendt: “Crisis in Education” and “Reflections on Little Rock.” The former was first published in Partisan Review in 1958 and the latter in Dissent in 1959. Rita gives an account of the context for the two essays and how they are related. We discuss Arendt’s critique of a number of progressive educational reforms including learning as doing and emancipating children from the authority of adults. Rita explains Arendt’s concept of natality and her understanding of the relationship between knowledge and authority. We discuss Arendt’s reasons for pessimism...2021-12-061h 11Enduring InterestBonus Episode: Matthew Dinan on ”Two Ages” by Soren KierkegaardHappy Thanksgiving! We are very pleased to bring you some bonus content—and this marks the first episode in our occasional series on minor works by the authors of the great books. Today we’re discussing the Danish philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard’s work Two Ages. Kierkagaard is known primarily as the author of works such as Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, and Either/Or. Two Ages, published in 1846, is ostensibly of a review of the novel A Story of Everyday Life by Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd (published the previous year). In this short essay he sketches and compares the def...2021-11-261h 20Enduring InterestMichael and Catherine Zuckert on Leo Strauss’s “What is Liberal Education?” and “Liberal Education and Responsibility”With this episode Enduring Interest moves into a new series on the subject of education. In the coming months we will be hearing from guests on authors including Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Eva Brann, Michael Oakshott, and others. Leo Strauss once wrote, “I own that education is in a sense the subject matter of my teaching and my research.” Yet, as Michael and Catherine Zuckert note, Strauss wrote very little directly on this subject. “What is Liberal Education” was first given as a commencement address at the Basic Program of Liberal Education at the University of Chicago in the late 1950s—it was...2021-11-011h 27Enduring InterestArt and Totalitarianism, with Clare Cavanagh, Jacob Howland, Perry Link and James PontusoIn this episode I speak with four previous guests on the podcast (Clare Cavanagh, Jacob Howland, Perry Link, and James Pontuso) and take up the question of the relationship between art and totalitarianism. We consider the fate of artistic inquiry and expression under totalitarian regimes both past and present. Why and how have totalitarian regimes sought to control all forms of art. How successful were and are such regimes in this effort? How have artists both past and present managed to elude their totalitarian masters and produce enduring works of art? In answering these and other questions, my guests draw...2021-10-151h 28Enduring InterestNathan Pinkoski on François Furet’s The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism of the Twentieth CenturyNathan Pinkoski, Research Fellow and Academic Director at the Zephyr Institute, and I discuss François Furet’s terrific book The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism of the Twentieth Century—first published in English in 1999. We talk a bit about Furet’s biography—he’s regarded as one of the greatest historians of the French Revolution. Like many French intellectuals who came of age in the years after the Second World War, Furet became a communist during that period and then became disillusioned shortly thereafter. The book is not a straightforward history of communism, but an account of the comm...2021-09-011h 00Enduring InterestClare Cavanagh on the poetry of Czeslaw MiloszIn this episode I speak with Clare Cavanagh, Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She’s the author of a forthcoming authorized biography of Czeslaw Milosz and a prize-winning translator of the poets Adam Zagajewski and Wislawa Szymborska. Her essays and translations have appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and Partisan Review. Some of her recently taught courses include What is Lyric Poetry? ; Gender and Revolution in Soviet Russian Culture; Heart of Europe: Poland in th...2021-08-061h 18Enduring InterestJames Pontuso on Václav Havel’s Audience, The Unveiling and ProtestIn this episode I speak with James Pontuso, the Charles Patterson Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at Hampton Sydney College, about Václav Havel’s trilogy revolving around the remarkable character Ferdinand Vaněk. We discuss Havel’s life as a playwright, dissident, and statesman and the immediate context in which these plays were written—the “normalization” regime in post-1968 Communist Czechoslovakia. Havel wrote the first play Audience in the summer of 1975 to amuse his friends during gatherings at his cottage in the country. Despite this modest beginning, not only would Havel go on to write two more plays about Vaněk...2021-07-121h 02Enduring InterestDaniel J. Mahoney on Raymond Aron's "The Opium of the Intellectuals"In this episode I speak with Daniel J. Mahoney, Professor and Augustinian Boulanger Chair in the Department of Political Science at Assumption University, about The Opium of the Intellectuals by the great French political thinker Raymond Aron. Dan argues that Aron was the leading French political thinker of the 20th century. Aron’s expertise transcends our intellectual subdivisions—he wrote substantial works in the fields of political theory, philosophy, international relations, political economy, and sociology. He also was an important contributor to political debates in France as a columnist over the course of his long career as a thinker and writ...2021-06-181h 03Enduring InterestPerry Link on "China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier"In this episode I speak with renowned China scholar Perry Link, the Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside, about his now classic 2002 essay “China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier.” We discuss the origins of the essay and its initial reception, as well as Professor Link’s blacklisting and why this was actually a kind of liberation. We dig into the system of psychological control and censorship that the Chinese Communist Party relies on and contrast that with the more mechanical, ideological training that has been used in other totalitarian regimes. Link explains how the vaguene...2021-06-051h 08Enduring InterestJacob Howland on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We'In the inaugural episode of Enduring Interest, I speak with Jacob Howland, McFarlin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Tulsa, about Yevgeny Zamyatin’s great dystopian novel WE. Jacob and I talk about Zamyatin himself—his early commitment to the Bolshevik cause in the early 1900s and his disillusionment following the revolution of 1917. The novel was written in 1920 but was suppressed in Russia. Zamyatin managed to smuggle the manuscript out of the country and it was first published in English translation in 1924. Tune in to hear an excerpt from the author’s shockingly candid letter to Stalin protesting the sup...2021-05-0754 min
The Moral ImaginationEp. 31: Titus Techera and Flagg Taylor: Communism and Film: Deceit, Privacy, Art, and the Effects of Tyranny on the SoulIn this episode, I speak with Titus Techera and Flagg Taylor about several films that address communism and the effects of tyranny and deceit on the human soul. We discuss themes of courage, freedom, privacy, shame, the purpose and role of art, and how we can become comprised over time by assenting to falsehood. We discuss how these films portray the challenges for regular people and how the experience of living under communism has lessons for us today. We also discuss the question of art and its relation to beauty, truth, and morality. Films we discuss include...2021-03-302h 14The Moral ImaginationEp. 31: Titus Techera and Flagg Taylor: Communism and Film: Deceit, Privacy, Art, and the Effects of Tyranny on the SoulIn this episode, I speak with Titus Techera and Flagg Taylor about several films that address communism and the effects of tyranny and deceit on the human soul. We discuss themes of courage, freedom, privacy, shame, the purpose and role of art, and how we can become comprised over time by assenting to falsehood. We discuss how these films portray the challenges for regular people and how the experience of living under communism has lessons for us today. We also discuss the question of art and its relation to beauty, truth, and morality. Films we discuss include...2021-03-302h 14The New ThinkeryInterview with Professor Flagg Taylor on "Loss of the Creature" | The New Thinkery Ep. 31In this week's edition of TNT, the guys are joined by Flagg Taylor, professor of political theory at Skidmore College. The group analyze Walker Percy's essay, "The Loss of the Creature," and focus especially on the idea of not having everything spelled out for you as a primer and to learn through doing. Plus: Stick around for Greg's Q&A!2021-02-2457 min
Tabletop Arcanum PodcastAlex Flagg InterviewWe got to chat with developer Alex Flagg from Crafty Games! Take a listen to his story in the industry and how Crafty games changed from a small indy RPG company into the hybrid that it is today. Also Alex gives us a break down of Crafty's newest project that is about to land on Kickstarter.
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The Moral ImaginationEp. 23: Flagg Taylor Ph.D: Living in Truth: Vaclav Havel on Existential Dissent & the Re-discovery of ConscienceIn this episode, I speak with Flagg Taylor about the writing and life of Vaclav Havel. We discuss his essays, plays, and other works. We also discuss Havel's idea of dissent as living in the truth. Dissent for Havel is not primarily political, but existential dissent from ideology, politicization of life, and consumerism. Visit https://www.themoralimagination.com/episodes/flagg-taylor for show notes and resources. Get full access to The Moral Imagination - Michael Matheson Miller at www.themoralimagination.com/subscribe2021-01-141h 50The Moral ImaginationEp. 23: Flagg Taylor Ph.D: Living in Truth: Vaclav Havel on Existential Dissent & the Re-discovery of ConscienceIn this episode, I speak with Flagg Taylor about the writing and life of Vaclav Havel. We discuss his essays, plays, and other works. We also discuss Havel's idea of dissent as living in the truth. Dissent for Havel is not primarily political, but existential dissent from ideology, politicization of life, and consumerism. Visit https://www.themoralimagination.com/episodes/flagg-taylor for show notes and resources. Get full access to The Moral Imagination - Michael Matheson Miller at www.themoralimagination.com/subscribe2021-01-141h 50
ACFmovie podcastACF PoMoCon #26 Flagg TaylorTitus & Flagg Taylor talk about the late Peter Lawler--his Tocquevillian teaching & his comic manner of reaching his audience, some of his impressive or amusing observations, & our friendship at Postmodern Conservative, Peter's attempt to offer liberal arts thought to the broad audience.2020-08-121h 03
ACFmovie podcastACF Europe #11 Mr JonesTitus & Flagg Taylor talk about the new Agnieszka Holland movie about Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainians, the Holodomor, & the liberal conspiracy to conceal the truth, orchestrated by Pulitzer winner Walter Duranty (the NYT never returned the prize).2020-06-2457 min
ACFmovie podcastACF Europe #7 Never Look AwayTitus & Carl Eric Scott & Flagg Taylor discuss Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's new movie, Never Look Away, a beautiful meditation on art & tyranny, on the changes of regime in Germany from the Nazis to Communist East Germany to the democratic West Germany, & the task of the artist in modern society.2019-04-121h 18
ACFmovie podcastACF Europe #6 Cold WarTitus & Flagg Taylor talk Pawlikowski again--Cold War, a beautiful tragedy by the preeminent Polish director of our times. After Ida, which won the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Cold War, which won the Palme D'or & the director prize in Cannes (& was nominated for three Oscars). After a story of devotion & divine love, a story about merely human love & shared suffering. Set in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia, & Paris, this is the story of a couple who go West & East across the Iron Curtain, trying to live well together.2019-03-0845 min
ACFmovie podcastACF Europe #5 IdaTitus & Flagg Taylor continue our series on Polish movies--& more broadly, movies about totalitarianism in Europe--turning to Pawel Pawlikowski, now at the top of his fame--nominated for the Oscars, a winner in Cannes, & finally making movies about his native Poland. We start with Ida, a movie about a young woman in the Poland of 1962, about to take her vows as a nun, who first has to learn about her family & their fate.2019-03-0538 min
ACFmovie podcastACF Europe #4 KatynTitus & Flagg Taylor discuss Katyn, the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda's fourth & last Oscar-nominated film--his story about honor & prudence, about faith & suffering--about the Nazi-Soviet dismemberment of Poland, the Soviet massacres at Katyn, & the subsequent totalitarian propaganda & the Polish struggle to remember & retain their national identity. It is also his own family story, since his father was murdered at Katyn.2019-02-2651 min
ACFmovie podcastACF Critic #23 Interviewing TitusTitus & Flagg Taylor switch chairs: ACF President Flagg today interviews ACF Exec. Director Titus Techera--about the American Cinema Foundation, its past, its plans, & its projects, about his learning about movies in post-Communist Eastern Europe & coming to America, to writing, & cultural criticism, & about the future--digital cinema, education, & heroism.2019-02-1956 min
ACFmovie podcastACF Middlebrow #30 BrookylnTitus & Flagg Taylor talk about Brooklyn, a beautiful work of selective nostalgia on the America of the 50s, from the point of view of an Irish immigrant played by the lovely, talented Saoirse Ronan. The story dramatizes the promises & perils of American freedom & the institutions needed to guide people to a decent happiness in America.2018-12-1150 min
ACFmovie podcastACF Europe #2 Burning BushTitus & Flagg Taylor talk about Agniezska Holland's story in honor of Jan Palach, Burning Bush. This is the 50th anniversary of the violent end of the Prague Spring, so we talk about the promise of freedom in in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet invasion that ended it, & the noble self-immolation of the young student Palach in protest against tyranny. We talk about the moral realism & the technical competence of the Burning Bush mini-series & connect it to Charter77 & the collapse of communism in 1989.2018-08-2045 min
ACFmovie podcastACF Middlebrow #22 The Death Of StalinTitus & Flagg Taylor talk about Comedy & Communism--under the banner of Middlebrow, we talk about the recent movie The Death of Stalin, but also about Milan Kundera's Joke & the plays of Vaclav Havel, about Solzhenitsyn & Leo Strauss, about the tragic movie The lives of others & about the black Soviet comedies of Ilf & Petrov... We talk about comedy as truth-telling & retrieval of nature under the threat of ideological tyranny, about comedy's relation to evil, & about how we in democracies can understand life under tyranny.2018-07-2641 min
ACFmovie podcastACF #15 UnforgivenTitus & Flagg Taylor discuss the last Western--& the movie that won Clint Eastwood his first Oscars. Unforgiven is a movie about the origins of law in sacred law--not in mere order. It shows what fearful deeds are required to establish the equal natural rights of all human beings, whereas an orderly system might simply treat women as prostitutes & property.2018-07-0557 min
ACFmovie podcastACF Critic #11 Never let me goTitus & Flagg Taylor discuss Never let me go, the 2010 movie made from Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel about a dystopia where clones are exploited for organs & have to discover their humanity. Flagg is a poli.sci professor & has taught the novel in a course on dystopias, along with Orwell, Huxley, C.S. Lewis, & Koestler. We talk about the troubling realism of the story & the way a scientific take over of human lives reflects our society.2018-05-1843 min