7.01: Do We Really Need to Keep the Internet Around?

Season 7’s charter—by way of a rollicking argument about Alan Jacobs’ The Year of Our Lord 1943 and Tolkien’s idea of eucatastrophe.

Major figures we discuss in this episode:

• Alan Jacobs’ recent work The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisi
• Jacques Ellul
• C. S. Lewis
• T. S. Eliot
• Jacques Mauritain
• Simone Weil
• J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • The Silmarillion
  • eucatastrophe: from “On Fairy Stories” (published in The Monsters and the Critics)

Other topics/figures/books/etc. we mentioned:

• The Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate
• “A Conflict of Crypto Visions” – Arjun Balaji on Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions
• Oliver O’Donovan – see especially his Resurrection and Moral Order
• natural law and the naturalistic fallacy
• technocracy
• Chris’ newsletter and specifically his issue on 1943: Have We Already Lost?
• Phaedrus

Also, Audio Hijack saved our bacon because Chris’ computer temporarily lost power due to a blizzard—and we lost nothing. If you’re in the business of audio and on a Mac, you should check out Rogue Amoeba’s excellent apps.

• ”Mi Naci” by Panfur
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.

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• Daniel Ellcey
• Jake Grant
• Jeremy W. Sherman
• Marnix Klooster
• Nathaniel Blaney
• Spencer Smith

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