Conservative Minds

I just wanted to leave some honest feedback and I hope I’m not the first person to mention this …. I love the podcast. It’s very interesting. However, the recorded audio is so low that it’s difficult to hear the hosts. Even if I turn my volume up all the way It is still very low.

No one will deny that the hosts are thinking at a high level, and they strive for charity, which I can’t say for many conservatives (and liberals) today. Their blind spots about their blind spots are problematic, though, and they end up demonizing progressives by using really lazy generalizations and extreme examples. I hope they keep at the pursuit of Truth and Charity and engage more humbly with non-White, non-European, and reductively rationality-centric resources. I’d be interested to see them engage more with Catholic - arguably the MOST conservative and intelligible group out their, at their best - resources like Ratzinger, Maritain, and JC Murray, though they’ll get a lot of anti-Catholic pushback for doing so. (Nothing new in America.)

Thanks for doing the podcast-I enjoy listening to your educational commentary. I begun bouncing around picking Episodes (10 or so) of interest but decided to go back to E1 and make a study of conservatism using the podcast as a study guide. To see how far we have fallen from 1960 Goldwater, to then see how much further we have descended just since 2018, is shocking. I also thought it would be interesting to hear your commentary on the Trump years through the podcasts. Thanks, looking forward to the journey, and 5 stars.

I admire this ambitious undertaking by 2 bright ordinary guys. What the podcast lacks in a systematic approach, it makes up in the sincere efforts of the hosts to assimilate a vast range of disparate thought. I do think that if one is going to try to define modern American conservatism, one has to read John Rawls as the main intellectual architect of modern American liberalism, robert nozick as rawls' main opponent and John Tomasi as one who attempts to mediate Rawls and nozick. Keep up the good work and keep the faith.