In a this YouTube podcast discussion, editors Harry and Samuel discuss the symbol of the Wasteland - the new theme of our upcoming issue for the Incidental Encyclical - through the lens of the writers whose works have informed the present inquiry. T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’, Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur’, and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Gulag Archipelago” form the backbone of a symbolic exploration of humanity’s responsibility for creating desolation. Listen to the audio via Substack, or watch the video below:

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