Vice President J.D. Vance went and spoke at a security conference in Munich. A message was sent. Many in Europe are now setting their hair on fire. What is up with this?

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Charles Haywood and I connect for a conversation about a recent tweet of mine suggesting that Trump administration messaging is just as manipulative and propagandistic as the previous administration. Charles disagreed. We talk about this and his recent review of the Martian General's Daughter.

https://x.com/_kruptos/status/1886549495925625069

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We all know that propaganda affects us. But how?

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A reading of Romans 5-8 from the Revised Standard Verstion

After a discussion about the Kalam proof for God, the guys got talking about infinity as a concept and its problems and importance. We thought you might enjoy this discussion.

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There is an ongoing debate over what is the "online right," and is it even a real thing? I would argue it is, and it's playing an important role in the shifting power dynamics of today.

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Paul Kingsnorth wrote an article for First Things, making an argument against the idea and reality of Christian Civilization. We in the Ghetto thought it merited a response.

Fairly shortly after Paul Kingsnorth wrote the following piece:

https://firstthings.com/against-christian-civilization/

…it engendered a response among the guys in the Ghetto. We all took some time to read and digest it, celebrate Christmas and New Years, line up our schedules, so as to have a discussion on this piece. If it were any other author, we might have ignored it and moved on. But, we all respect Paul as writer and a thinker. We appreciated his conversion story as well as his deep dive into the technological problem and modernity. But, as much as it pains us to do this, we had to push back with some force. It was not a great piece and needed a robust response. That is what we did. We have tagged him here in the hopes that this discussion might reach him. We would love to have him on to dialogue on the subject and explore more where he is coming from and see if our critiques engender some re-thinking of his own position. Its an important discussion and we hope you will enjoy it.

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A reading of Romans 1-4 from the Revised Standard Version

I had Last Things on to talk about his recent conversion to Roman Catholicism. We begin there and then range out to talk about a number of related topics. I think you will enjoy the discussion.

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We tend to think of propaganda as something done to us. But given the effects of the technological society, we have come to need propaganda to keep ourselves and society functioning.

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