Conservative Conversations Episode 46—David Whalen on Wonder, Literature as Political, and Books that Inspire

In this episode:

• Dr. David Whalen, a longtime English professor at Hillsdale College, describes what the telos of the university is
• The difference between wonder and curiosity
• How literature intersects with the political

Texts Mentioned:

• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing by James V. Schall
• Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

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