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Michael Doran delivers the 2018 First Things Lecture in Washington, D.C. This lecture is also available in the pages of First Things and on firstthings.com.
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This was very interesting. I don’t agree with much of it. But the lecture was very thoughtful.
I didn’t know First Things did a Podcast. It is good that Ricochet to put it on.
I wish I had heard this in high school, back when we learned about Bryan and Darrow and read Moby Dick. I’d like to think it would have made an impression.
Very interesting presentation. I fall more on the neocon perspective (mix of both Jacksonian/Progressive views which he mentions in the Q&A), though I definitely identify more with Jackson. I think William Jennings Bryan was a crackpot though ;)
I really enjoyed this podcast. I’m currently reading a monograph by Kevin Kruse that looks at the merging of religion and politics in the 1930s through the 1950s in part to combat FDR. His thesis falls short for me because I knew about these earlier mergings of theology with policy–the mixing was not created in the 1930s–but this was well articulated and still taught me quite a bit. Interesting.
Experts are often wrong, but with “Darwinism”, the experts are right.