Every ethics presumes a sociology. That formula has followed me through nearly twenty-five years of study, and its source text, After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre, has been a constant conversation partner as I have studied and taught. What I haven’t attended to nearly enough is the life of the human being behind After Virtue, but Nathan Pinkoski is here to remedy that. His translation of Emile Perrau-Saussine’s book Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography walks through the where and the who and the what and the how that got MacIntyre asking the questions that have become my own, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome him to the show.
Nathan Gilmour talks with Dan Koch of the You Have Permission podcast about his recent project "End Times Anxiety."
David Grubbs interviews Greg Peters about his recent book "The Story of Monasticism."
I don’t often talk about my own high-school years on this podcast, but I remember in high-school jazz band playing a Christmas medley called...