Discussions about ideas, the arts, and culture, with Director John Hodges with friends and faculty of the Center for Western Studies.
From the Center
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Discussions about ideas, the arts, and culture, with Director John Hodges with friends and faculty of the Center for Western Studies.
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June 22, 2024
Feeding the Soul: Stories for a Child's Imagination
<p>In this episode, Director Hodges and Ben discuss the nature of children's stories and how they offer another world for contemplation, a world beyond our own that lives on in our minds long into adulthood. </p> <p> </p>
June 14, 2024
Repeating History? Parallels with the Fall of the Roman Republic
<p>Are there similarities between the decline of the West today and the decline of the Republic of Rome after the Punic Wars? Director Hodges muses about the similarities, and comments on an article written by H. A. Scott Trask, in Chronicles Magazine.</p> <p>Other important recommendations: Tom Holland's book RUBICON, Will and Ariel Durant's CAESAR AND CHRIST, and the podcasts History of Rome (Mike Duncan), and Hard Core History (Dan Carlin).</p> <p>We will be going into further detail in future podcasts.</p>
May 24, 2024
Henryk Gorecki's SYMPHONY OF SORROWFUL SONGS
<p>As we continue to consider the cultural works of the West, this is another of our Director's live conference lectures, given in 2011, just months after the death of the composer Henryk Gorecki, a Polish Catholic, who's Symphony #3 became an international hit on the popular song charts of 1993. In this work, Gorecki departs from his more avant-garde styles, and takes up a kind of minimalism, into which he injects his Faith. The recording excerpted here is with Dawn Upshaw singing.</p>
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