From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft
In this episode, Fr. John describes how ideological world building created not only a hard totalitarianism in the Communist dictatorship of...
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Paradise and Utopia
Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom - A series of forty reflections on the history of Christian civilization, or Christendom. The entire podcast is organized around the theme of...
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20 of 127 episodesFrom Utopia to Dystopia I: How Christians Like C.S. Lewis Saw Nihilism for What It Was
In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John tells how traditional Christianity provided certain critics of ideological world-building with a...
Liberal World-Building II: American Anticommunism in the 1950s
In this episode, Fr. John describes the anticommunist character of liberalism in America during the Cold War, noting how in its promotion of...
Liberal World Building I: When J.S. Mill met Friedrich Nietzsche
In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John looks at the origins of the main rival to the world-Building ideologies of Communism and Nazis, A...
Nazi World-Building III: The War of Annihilation
In this final episode on Nazi Germany, Fr. John discusses the unparalleled nihilism of Hitler's "new order" for the West during World War II...
Nazi World-Building II: The Project of Cultural Coordination
In this episode, Fr. John describes how the Nazis, once in power, pursued a culture war against existing German values and beliefs by attack...
Nazi World-Building I: When Nietzsche met Darwin in Hitler's Mind
In this episode, Fr. John launches into the darkest period of the age of nihilism, Nazi Germany. In it, he explores the conditions of Wester...
Communist World Building III: The Great Terror
In this final episode dealing with the Soviet Union under Stalin, Fr. John narrates one of the most chilling episodes in the ideological pro...
Communist World-Building II: Realized Ideological Eschatology
Father John continues his account of the Soviet Union's totalitarian project of building socialism by contrasting its nihilistic ideology wi...
Communist World-Building I: The Revolution from Above
In this episode, Fr. John begins a discussion of ideological world-building during the twentieth-century age of nihilism. The Communist lead...
Dehumanization II: The Great War and Its Cultural Outcome
Father John describes the way the First World World shattered confidence in utopia with Western Christendom, and how the growing specter of...
Dehumanization I: Artistic Modernism and the Dismal Sciences
In this episode, Fr. John reviews the rise of modernism at the beginning of the twentieth century, an artistic movement that largely annihil...
Dostoevsky IV: Restoring Christendom's Paradisiacal Culture
In this final episode telling of Dostoevsky's encounter with the "specter of nihilism," Fr. John brings attention to the novelist's characte...
Dostoevsky III: Repentance Will Save the World
In this episode, Fr. John reflects on Dostoevsky's spiritual prescription for Christendom as it began to fall under the specter of nihilism....
Dostoevsky II: Shattering the Illusion of Utopian Rationalism
Returning to a literary career after a decade of exile, Fyodor Dostoevsky confronted one of the great delusions of secular humanism: that ma...
Dostoevsky I: A Believer among Atheists.
In this summary of the second chapter of his book, The Age of Nihilism, Fr. John discusses the early life and faith and incarceration of Rus...
The Making of an Antichrist IV: "Behold the Man"
In this final presentation on the nihilistic philosophy of Nietzsche, Fr. John considers the philosopher's final work, an autobiography enti...
The Making of an Antichrist III: An Anti-Gospel
In his continued account of Friedrich Nietzsche, Fr. John discusses the megalomaniac philosopher's effort to replace the Gospel with an athe...
The Making of an Antichrist II: Unmasking Secular Humanism
Friedrich Nietzsche is in many ways the father of modern nihilism. In this episode, Fr. John describes the philosopher's relationship to the...
The Making of an Antichrist I: "Whoever Fears the Tip of My Spear . . ."
In this episode, Fr. John begins an account of Friedrich Nietzsche by discussing Richard Wagner, a direct influence on the philosopher whose...
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