The Lamplighters The Lamp
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The podcast of The Lamp magazine, hosted by Matthew Walther and Nic Rowan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Melting Pot
Megan McArdle of the Washington Post joins our hosts to discuss immigration and what it means to be American.
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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.
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