The Karl Schudt Show

I read for you Chapter 1 of John Senior's gloriously poetic rant The Restoration of Christian Culture, and also announce the new Socrates Club I'm offering for you if you want to read the Great Books with me.

The answer is no, but yes, but only in a certain way. It's a deep and important question in the history of theology, and will prevent you from thinking you know things that you don't. Much more fun than it sounds!

I read most of the essay to you and comment about energy, technology, farming, computers, education, food, truth, beauty, and goodness. Irony: using my technology to bemoan the misuse of technology. Further irony: I mention in the episode that I will upload the video, but I forgot to press "record," so there's no video.

Is God perfect? Yes, of course. But what do we _mean_ when we say that? St. Thomas Aquinas is an exemplar of the careful thinking you need to do when you approach theological issues. Listen and find out why.

I read Robert Graves' forward to his book of The Greek Myths wherein he discusses his theories of centaurs, satyrs, Dionysus, Tlaloc, and mushrooms. It's just as fun as it sounds!

Karl explains to you younguns the proper way to keep track of websites that you like using an RSS aggregator. Then he takes you on a brief tour of his bookshelves, where he talks about learning Greek, GK Chesterton, Greg Judy, Larry Correia, and other oddities.

Aristotle deals with communism in the Politics, pointing out exactly how having everything in common is bad politics. Also, some talk about Hammurabi, Fr. Schmemann, and hints of exciting new developments at soulsteading.life.

In which Aristotle takes shots at Socrates and Plato, who argued that there was one virtue for everyone. He also takes on The Republic. It's fun when philosophers fight!

In 1920 Clyde Pharr wrote an essay on why children should be taught Homeric Greek first. Now we don't teach any Greek, but his essay is still valuable, especially if you, dear listener, would like to learn Greek. Replace "doom scrolling" with "Homer scrolling."

Will Durant and his wife wrote a very large history of the whole world through Napoleon. It's not just long, it's good! I read and comment on the introduction and some of the first bits.