I am honored to post two recent interviews, one with Thomas Mirus of the Catholic Culture Podcast, the other with Sean Tehan of The Irish Rover at the University of Notre Dame. The links are underneath the pictures.
Happiness, suffering, the Stoic revival, self-deception, why I used to be such an idiot, etc., April, 2022
Query:
Thomas Aquinas connects the authority to make laws with responsibility for the common good. Surprisingly, some of my colleagues find this connection perplexing. How would you explain it?
Let no one fear death, for the Savior's death has set us free. He that was taken by death has annihilated it! He descended into hades and took hades captive! He embittered it when it tasted his flesh! And anticipating this Isaiah exclaimed, "Hades was embittered when it encountered thee in the lower regions."
The Soviet Union used to put political dissidents into insane asylums. But there is more than one way to make political use of the issue of mental health. One path to the total state is the therapeutic state.
Three hours of conversation on happiness, cabbages, kings, and lots of other things with Matt Fradd of Pints with Aquinas, April, 2022
Interview with Mark Bauerlein, host of the First Thoughts podcast at First Things, March, 2022.