Rod and Kale return after a hiatus to discuss:

• war continues in Ukraine, and a dark and cold winter awaits
• potential breakup of the European Union?
• do the elites truly believe that they "create their own reality"?
• institutions continue to lie and burn through cultural capital; what is left to trust?
• can the organs of cultural transmission be salvaged?
• English departments as one-time de facto theology departments
• Kale's trip to Oxford and the statements of faith
• St. Michel, or "The Wonder"
• learning to inhabit a space, and the appreciation of old things