About this podcast
A series of forty reflections on the history of Christian civilization, or Christendom. The entire podcast is organized around the theme of "paradise and utopia" - that is, of the civilization's orientation toward the kingdom of heaven when traditional Christianity was influential, and of its "disorientation" toward the fallen world in the wake of traditional Christianity's decline in the west following the Great Schism.
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Paradise and Utopia
About this podcast
A series of forty reflections on the history of Christian civilization, or Christendom. The entire podcast is organized around the theme of "paradise and utopia" - that is, of the civilization's orientation toward the kingdom of heaven when traditional Christianity was influential, and of its "disorientation" toward the fallen world in the wake of traditional Christianity's decline in the west following the Great Schism.
Recent episodes
- From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft3 Apr
- From Utopia to Dystopia I: How Christians Like C.S. Lewis Saw Nihilism for What It Was9 Jan
- Liberal World-Building II: American Anticommunism in the 1950s5 Dec 2025
- Liberal World Building I: When J.S. Mill met Friedrich Nietzsche14 Nov 2025
- Nazi World-Building III: The War of Annihilation31 Oct 2025
- Nazi World-Building II: The Project of Cultural Coordination19 Sept 2025
- Nazi World-Building I: When Nietzsche met Darwin in Hitler's Mind29 Aug 2025
- Communist World Building III: The Great Terror4 Jul 2025
- Communist World-Building II: Realized Ideological Eschatology27 Jun 2025
- Communist World-Building I: The Revolution from Above30 May 2025
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