Winning Slowly

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. Show Notes 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, y