Professor Roberto de Mattei is a Catholic historian and thinker with an interesting political, historical, and theological perspectives on the coronavirus. In this episode, I discuss the relationship between the coronavirus and globalization. I will explain how De Mattei sees the coronavirus as the end of globalization, even though the so-called masters of chaos will try to use it to create a global government. Find his lecture at “New Scenarios in the Coronavirus era-prof. Roberto de Mattei” on YouTube.

In this trailer, I introduce a lecture De Mattei gave on the political, historical, and theological significance of the coronavirus. The coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019, is not merely a biological pathogen. Instead, it connects with profound political, historical, and theological questions. Please listen to go deeper, to the “principle” behind the Wuhan coronavirus.

In this episode, I complete my discussion of the famous lecture, Existentialism Is A Humanism. I discuss the idea of absolute freedom in relation to Marxism and certain sociological accounts of income inequality and crime. I discuss tensions in Sartre’s rejection of materialist determinism and also his embrace of atheism.

In this episode, I explain Sartre’s famous lecture, Existentialism Is A Humanism. I identify objections to existentialism from both communists and from Christians. The communists feared that the focus on subjectivity characteristic of existentialism would erode solidarity. The Christians feared that existentialism challenged the idea of absolute value. Sartre promoted nevertheless the idea that existence preceded essence, going against major metaphysical traditions. I also tie the idea that the world is absurd to the materialist philosophy of Darwinism.

In this episode, I will go through the famous lecture Jean Paul-Sartre have in post World War II France just as the Nazi occupation has ended. This celebrity intellectual spoke to a deeply confused world who had seen evil on a horrific scale, in the form of Nazi concentration camps, and who were dealing with their own trauma about the decisions they had to make with respect to the collaborationist Vichy government.

I continue in this episode with David Gelernter’s piece, “Giving Up Darwin,” at https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/giving-up-darwin/. He thinks we need to shift away from the idea that natural selection and molecular biology can explain the origin of human life.

CultureCast is a podcast devoted to keeping people up to speed on cultural matters. I am a philosopher currently currently completing a doctorate at Temple University. I am also a novelist who has produced one novel so far, “The Realm of Possibility.” In this episode, I introduce an article from the Claremont Review of Books which challenges the Darwinian orthodoxy that new species can be generated through random heritable variation and natural selection. David Gelernter is a Yale computer scientist who wrote this piece. It hints at a possible monumental paradigm shift in the way we understand human life.