The Bench

Grayson Quay

The Bench is a podcast hosted by freelance writer Grayson Quay and featuring conversations with people who are building, living in, and thinking about community.

Episodes

  1. 24/03/2021

    Episode 5 – Dr. Alexander Salter on G.K. Chesterton and Polycentricity

    Dr. Alexander Salter, an associate professor of economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, joins the podcast to talk discuss polycentric order, the economic thought of G.K. Chesterton, and why there's no substitute for getting off your ass and doing the hard work of building community.   Alex and I also discuss medieval history, informal constitutions, and Eastern Orthodoxy (to which Alex is a convert). Alex is a brilliant thinker, and I spend much of the episode struggling to keep up with him. This episode is my shortest one yet, so you can listen to it twice (and might need to)! Alex's bio: https://www.awsalter.com/  Alex's Q&A with Eileen Norcross: https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2021/01/15/classical-liberalism-and-the-common-good/  Alex at The American Conservative: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-true-conservatism-means-anarchy/  Alex's forthcoming book: https://www.amazon.com/Money-Rule-Law-Predictability-Institutions/dp/1108479847  What's Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton: https://www.amazon.com/gp/slredirect/picassoRedirect.html/ref=pa_sp_atf_stripbooks_sr_pg1_1?ie=UTF8&adId=A00479357E5I64WB2SG1&url=%2FWhats-Wrong-World-G-Chesterton%2Fdp%2F1797442384%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1_sspa%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Dwhat%2527s%2Bwrong%2Bwith%2Bthe%2Bworld%26qid%3D1616612443%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-1-spons%26psc%3D1&qualifier=1616612443&id=7223118988827830&widgetName=sp_atf  A Short History of England by G.K. Chesterton: https://www.amazon.com/gp/slredirect/picassoRedirect.html/ref=pa_sp_atf_stripbooks_sr_pg1_1?ie=UTF8&adId=A0552106G1I63H4CBV45&url=%2FShort-History-England-G-K-Chesterton%2Fdp%2FB08KJ74LD6%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1_sspa%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Dchesterton%2Bshort%2Bhistory%2Bof%2Bengland%26qid%3D1616612471%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-1-spons%26psc%3D1&qualifier=1616612471&id=3351892519553755&widgetName=sp_atf  Vladimir Lossky (Orthodox theologian): https://www.amazon.com/Vladimir-Lossky/e/B001K7PHAU?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1616612621&sr=1-1

    56 min
  2. 10/03/2021

    Episode 4 – Evan Feinberg on Frederick Douglass, Believing in People, and Starving the State

    Evan Feinberg, the Executive Director of the philanthropic Stand Together Foundation, joins Grayson to explain how Stand Together empowers people to escape poverty. Their discussion touches on racial justice, direct cash assistance, and how communities can "starve the state of responsibility."     Sorry for the long gap between episodes! I ran into some technical difficulties.   Evan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-feinberg-7605993a/  Stand Together: https://standtogetherfoundation.org/about/  The Phoenix (addiction recovery): https://thephoenix.org/  Family Independence Initiative (direct cash assistance): https://www.fii.org/  Safe Families for Children: https://safe-families.org/about/  The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: https://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Frederick-Douglass-Original-Classic/dp/1722502266/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_1/135-2395458-5692059?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1722502266&pd_rd_r=da818057-145e-49df-b3cc-a24ac23baba8&pd_rd_w=HFcfp&pd_rd_wg=SEsLm&pf_rd_p=16b28406-aa34-451d-8a2e-b3930ada000c&pf_rd_r=V5081TH6AEYD8JK9ZAZJ&psc=1&refRID=V5081TH6AEYD8JK9ZAZJ  What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July (Frederick Douglass speech): https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/  Reclaiming the American Dream (book by Richard Cournelle): https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-American-Dream-Associations-Philanthropy/dp/1560006552

    1h 36m

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The Bench is a podcast hosted by freelance writer Grayson Quay and featuring conversations with people who are building, living in, and thinking about community.