# Gertrude Himmelfarb

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Ep. 20: What is the Moral Imagination? + 15 Ways to Build it and Recover Our Humanity

What is the moral imagination? Why is it important? In this episode, I discuss the concept of the moral imagination and 15 ways to develop it. I discuss the origin of the term in Edmund Burke's critique of the French Revolution and his worry that the reductionist Enlightenment view of reason would …

Invisible String (History's Version): TikTok Theories, the Enlightenment & Taylor Swift

In this episode, we journey into the intricate connections between the past and present, tracing the threads from the Enlightenment movement to the cultural phenomena of today. We explore how Enlightenment ideals of reason, individuality, and freedom continue to influence our world, taking from a t…

Épater le bourgeois (shock the middle classes) Has Been the Revolutionary Rallying Cry of the Left in the Cultural War Against Judeo-Christian Morality and the Nuclear Family for Well over a Hundred and Fifty Years

Why Marxist Organizations Like BLM Seek to Dismantle the “Western Nuclear Family” Épater le bourgeois (shock the middle classes) has been the revolutionary rallying cry of the left in the cultural war against Judeo-Christian morality and the nuclear family for well over a hundred and fifty years. …

Family Matters - Bruce Logan the Pilgrim

In this episode of Family Matters, Simon interviews Bruce Logan about his book 'Pilgrim: Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Civil Religion in New Zealand Today'. Bruce shares his motivations for writing the book, rooted in understanding and explaining the societal changes he has witnessed from his yo…

Charles Dickens & A Christmas Carol - More Than Holiday Spirit

Charles Dickens & A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens's Revolutionary Ghost Story  Discover the untold story behind Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in this deep dive into Victorian literature's most influential work. More than just a holiday tale, A Christmas Carol was a radical political manife…

Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

Liberalism today is under attack, as it often has been. Samuel Moyn, the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, believes that liberalism's failures, and a path to its better future, can be discerned through a study of how liberal intellectuals reacted to the rise of fascis…

Thomas Carlyle, Forgotten Conservative (Part 1) - The Sower Episode 77 (audio)

Life and works of the Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). Ethan Alexander-Davey teaches political science at Campbell University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ciceronian Society. He is co-editor, with Richard Avramenko, of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times a…

From Neocon to Never-Trump (w/ Bill Kristol)

There’s perhaps no living person who better embodies the themes, contradictions, ethos, and pathos of “Know Your Enemy” than William Kristol, this week’s guest. Today, Kristol is editor-at-large of The Bulwark, a valuable redoubt of unreconstructed Never-Trumpism, which he helped found in 2018. But…

Thomas Carlyle, Forgotten Conservative (Part 2) - The Sower Episode 78 (audio)

Life and works of the Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). Ethan Alexander-Davey teaches political science at Campbell University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ciceronian Society. He is co-editor, with Richard Avramenko, of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times a…

S15 EP127: Hour 2 - The Insanity Spreading on the Left

Erick unloads on Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page of Juno) for calling the gender binary a myth, using it to argue that while the left's wokeism is fading, its mental health crisis and DSA violence keep growing. He then delivers an extended investigation of the Patriot Front, arguing it is not an F…