30 episodes

The podcast of The Lamp magazine, hosted by Matthew Walther and Nic Rowan.

The Lamplighters The Lamp

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    • 4.2 • 22 Ratings

The podcast of The Lamp magazine, hosted by Matthew Walther and Nic Rowan.

    Interview with a Robot

    Interview with a Robot

    Timothy Nerozzi joins our hosts to discuss his recent piece for the website and to interview its subject, the recently laicized AI priest, Father Justin.

    • 41 min
    The Travel Team Trap

    The Travel Team Trap

    Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner joins our hosts to discuss his new book, Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, and to debate "The Travel Team Trap" with Nick Cotta, a father of eight children, two of whom play travel sports.

    • 58 min
    More Impossible Things

    More Impossible Things

    Stanley Fish joins our hosts to discuss "Impossible Things," his recent essay for the magazine, in which he catologues the latest attempts in a perennial project to clean up human behavior, from blind submission to critical legal studies to artificial intelligence. Professor Fish is the presidential scholar in residence at New College, Florida, and the author of many books, most recently, Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art, which is available for purchase here.

    • 54 min
    The Tootsie Pop Test

    The Tootsie Pop Test

    Urban Hannon joins our hosts to discuss Lenten practices, as well as his new book, Thomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentaries on the Mass.

    • 41 min
    The Melting Pot

    The Melting Pot

    Megan McArdle of the Washington Post joins our hosts to discuss immigration and what it means to be American.

    • 54 min
    The Bad Old Days

    The Bad Old Days

    Amanda Piccirillo of the Josias podcast and Lydia Sherwood join our hosts to discuss memories (and false memories) of the Church of our youth.

    • 56 min

Customer Reviews

4.2 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

timboishiding ,

Genuinely interesting conversations

Great guests, topics of both significance and interest, and a simple conversational format makes for easy and rewarding listening.

WestchesterRich ,

Catholic Atheism

The background noise made this episode impossible to listen to. I had to turn it off.

Enoch Emery ,

Unpretentious, substantive discussion on a wide range of topics

I’m enjoying this!

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