• 16 minutes 40 seconds
    Losing Our Savor

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers Marco Rubio’s warning about left-wing political violence, examines the New Testament word moraino and the connection between folly and salt losing its savor, and reviews Steve Turley’s CivCosm and its vision of a world reorganizing around competing civilizations.

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    6 August 2026, 5:47 pm
  • 13 minutes 42 seconds
    Spots and Blemishes

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on European soccer fans discovering the hospitality of heartland America, examines the shameless and brazen nature of sin through the word mamos, and reviews P. G. Wodehouse’s intricately plotted comedy Piccadilly Jim.

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    30 July 2026, 4:38 pm
  • 17 minutes 15 seconds
    Revolt Against Reality

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers the conflict surrounding Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham in the WNBA, explains how mocking God means revolting against the way reality actually works, and reviews The Queen You Thought You Knew, highlighting Rabbi Fohrman’s insights into Esther’s subtle strategy against Haman.

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    23 July 2026, 5:09 pm
  • 13 minutes 35 seconds
    Turning from the Truth

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson discusses the Supreme Court’s decision upholding state protections for women’s sports, examines the New Testament warnings against myths and fables, and reviews Malcolm Guite’s Galahad and the Grail.

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    15 July 2026, 10:40 pm
  • 15 minutes 59 seconds
    No Occasion for Despair

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers the Supreme Court’s birthright-citizenship decision and possible paths forward, examines the sin of making and worshiping the golden calf, and reviews Kurt Vonnegut’s practical writing advice in Pity the Reader.

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    6 July 2026, 4:48 pm
  • 14 minutes 24 seconds
    The Feminization of Everything

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson discusses the feminization of institutions and argues that the presence of women inevitably transforms male spaces. He then continues his survey of New Testament sins with quarreling—a public sin Christians often mistake for righteousness—and closes with a review of Yoram Hazoni’s God and Politics in Esther.

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    18 June 2026, 5:31 pm
  • 14 minutes 27 seconds
    Cannabis Woes

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson talks about the strong evidence that links cannabis use to psychotic events, the filthiness of the flesh and spirit in 2 Corinthians, and C.S. Lewis’s Narrative Poems, especially "Dymer" and the value of writers whose phrases are sticky.

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    11 June 2026, 4:48 pm
  • 14 minutes 12 seconds
    Two-Front War

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson cautions that modern wars are fought both on the battlefield and in the media narrative. He also continues his theological word study on sin with moluno and the defiling of the conscience, and reviews Charles Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students as a practical, warm-hearted book of homiletical wisdom.

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    4 June 2026, 5:26 pm
  • 14 minutes 47 seconds
    Preference Cascades

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers signs of populist unrest in the UK, California, and Alberta, reflects on Molech and idolatry from Stephen’s speech in Acts, and reviews Glenn Reynolds’s Seductive AI with warnings about deception, dependence, and worship.

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    27 May 2026, 3:00 am
  • 14 minutes
    Why Aren’t More People in Jail?

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson argues that exposing corruption still requires real prosecutions and consequences, continues his hamartiology series with moichos as the Greek word for adulterer, and reviews Richard Baxter’s A Call to the Unconverted as a warm, urgent, and reformed evangelistic appeal.

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    20 May 2026, 3:00 am
  • 14 minutes 41 seconds
    A Climate of Hatred

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    In this episode, Douglas Wilson discusses political violence, public reactions to assassination attempts, and the need for real civic consequences rather than more dialogue, then continues his hamartiology series with the Greek verb moikeuo and its biblical treatment of adultery in the heart, marriage, love of neighbor, and the unity of God’s law, before reviewing Howard Pyle’s Men of Iron as a well-researched and gripping medieval adventure.

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    13 May 2026, 3:00 am
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