Baseball is said to be America’s favorite pastime, but it can be argued that professional wrestling comes very close to dominating the upper tiers of Americana. Take for instance, countries like India and Saudi Arabia that generally do not care for Baseball or Football, but they are crazy about American professional wrestling. Why is this the case? […]
David Gornoski and physicist Dr. Weiping Yu are joined by Academy-Award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and writer Joshua Goldstein for a conversation on their upcoming documentary Nuclear Now; why nuclear energy is vastly misunderstood by environmentalists; cold fusion; climate change; Chernobyl and Fukushima; Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News; the future of the energy industry; […]
David Gornoski sits down with Uberboyo for a fascinating conversation on what a Girardian critique of someone like Andrew Tate would look like; misunderstood concepts about Nietzsche; the progression of slave morality; Nietzsche’s critique of resentment; why Christianity is supposed to be about action; the creative energy that rejuvenates humanity; the need for a new […]
It’s THINGS HIDDEN and David Gornoski sits down with the returning Cyprian of the Royal Path podcast for a conversation on the increasing danger posed by the emergence of generative AI, the deep meaning of the word attention, how AI distinguishes itself from rest of technology, the joy of organic development, how we end up […]
In this THINGS HIDDEN episode, David Gornoski sits down with psychologist Scott Garrels, author of Mimesis and Science, for a conversation on mimetic theory from a psychological perspective; mirror neurons; magnetoreception; unanimity against a scapegoat; how psychology, physics, and mimetic theory compliments each other; and more.
David Gornoski sits down with Michael Hardin, author of the Jesus Driven Life, for a conversation on how Jesus changes the concept of religion in the ancient world, how the Gospel affects economics, the technological sins, gnostic origin of modern Christianity, the coming Jesus revolution, Donald Trump as scapegoat, the future of American politics, the […]
David Gornoski sits down with Buck Johnson, the host of the Counterflow podcast, for a conversation on the origin of the Counterflow podcast, his conversion to Orthodoxy, spiritual discipline in firefighting, facing the spirit of the crowd, cultural changes in the new generation, from “death to tyrants” to “death to the world,” persecution, martyrdom, and […]
David Gornoski is joined by Jordan Landfear and Surit Dasgupta for a discussion of Fr. Malachi Martin’s popular book Hostage to the Devil. Are the exorcism stories true? What does the first case in Fr. Martin’s book signify for our time? Can those who get demonically possessed resist evil? Listen to the full podcast to […]
David Gornoski is joined by Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Gil Bailie. The two talk about the latest and upcoming books; vertical and horizontal spirituality; how we can receive grace; the battle over secretness in the Catholic church; mimesis in the liturgy; the road to peace in Ukraine; the normalization of carnival and self-creation; how evil exists; […]
David Gornoski, Shane Kennedy & Shannon Braswell talk about the January 6 footage released by Tucker Carlson. Why is there a television producer on the January 6 committee? Who is to blame for the protest that took place on that day? In what sense is the Capitol “sacred?” What should have been Trump’s reaction to […]