Best Titus Techera Podcasts (2024)

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Ep. 58 William Easterly Ph.D. - Poverty, Technocracy, and the Tyranny of Experts 1:34:19

5d ago1:34:19

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Photo Credit: Tyler Follon - Wingman Visuals In this episode of the Moral Imagination Podcast, I speak with Professor William Easterly of New York University about his work in development economics, and the problems of technocracy and social engineering of the poor. Easterly worked at the World Bank from 1985-2001 and began to be troubled by a numb…

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PoMoCon #46 Montesquieu 56:38

28d ago56:38

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Titus & Prof. William Allen discuss his new translation of Montesquieu's The Spirit of The Laws.By Titus Techera

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ACF Europe #24 The Leopard 44:35

1M ago44:35

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Titus & Miles Smith IV discuss Visconti's adaptation of the most famous 20th c. Italian novel, Lampedusa's Gattopardo. The end of the aristocracy, the beginning of the bourgeoisie, the problem beauty poses for art.By Titus Techera

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Ep.57 The Decline of Christianity, the Rise of the “Nones” and Philosophies of the Person that Shape Unbelief 42:42

2M ago42:42

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This episode of the Moral Imagination Podcast is a talk I gave at AmPhil’s Center for Civil Society conference in November, 2023 on the “Rise of the Nones.” According to Pew Research, those who declare no religious affiliation - None - are now the largest religious category in the United States. In this talk I address several overarching reasons fo…

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Ep.56 Ambassador Eduard Habsburg: Building a Family Legacy — The Habsburg Way: 7 Tools for Turbulent Times 1:01:24

3M ago1:01:24

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In this episode of the Moral Imagination Podcast I speak with Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta, Ambassador Eduard Habsburg, about his book The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times. We discuss a number of themes including some history of the Habsburg Dynasty, the life and death of Blessed Charles of Aust…

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Ep.55 Seth Kapan on Fragile Neighborhoods — Relationships and Place-Based Solutions to Social and Material Poverty 1:17:41

3M ago1:17:41

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In this episode of the Moral Imagination Podcast I speak with Seth Kaplan about his book Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society One Zip Code at a Time. Seth has spent his career working in fragile states around the world — countries that are unstable and prone to violence, war, and political problems. About 10 years ago Seth was increasi…

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ACF Europe #23 Young Pope 1:06:40

6M ago1:06:40

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Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni talk about The Young Pope, Paolo Sorrentino's HBO comic miniseries about a reactionary American pope calling the modern world to account before the mystery of God!By Titus Techera

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ACF Critic Series #57 Hail Caesar 54:23

6M ago54:23

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Titus & Joshua Steinman discuss the Coen Bros.' Hail Caesar, a vision of the American mid-century, the post-war moment when glamour & technology competed in Los Angeles, when the beautiful visions of the past held sway & science had not yet replaced them.By Titus Techera

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ACF Critic Series #56 Being There 48:47

7M ago48:47

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Titus & Chris Rufo discuss the last remarkable Peter Sellers film, Hal Ashby's Being There, a satire on Washington, D.C., but also an existential drama with a philosophical interest in the problem of nihilism. We touch on everything from the zombie Biden presidency to Heidegger's Dasein!By Titus Techera

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ACF Europe #22 Aguirre 47:02

7M ago47:02

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Titus & Lafayette Lee talk Werner Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath Of God -- conquistadors in the Amazon, El Dorado & terror, a journey into the heart of darkness, a return to the origins of monsters & heroes. Manly nihilism, the indifference & hostility of nature, incest.By Titus Techera

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ACF Europe #21 Il Divo 1:20:42

8M ago1:20:42

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Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni talk Italian politics & Paolo Sorrentino's artistic vision of the Italian republic in Il Divo, the secrets of the politicians & the transformation brought about by democracy...By Titus Techera

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ACF Critic Series #55 Soylent Green 56:28

8M ago56:28

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Titus & David Polasnky discuss dystopia & the transformation of elite opinion in the 50 years since Soylent Green came out--a movie whose horrors of poverty are now offered as policy proposals for a progressive future.By Titus Techera

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ACF Europe #20 The Consequences of Love 1:03:58

9M ago1:03:58

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Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni talk about Paolo Sorrentino's second movie, his first romantic story, or at least novelistic character study, starring the greatest Italian actor of the 21st c., Toni Servillo. Sorrentino comes up with a beautiful story about the secret power of love & morality over the heart of modern man, & a striking admirat…

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Ep.54 Cajetan Cuddy O.P on The Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas 1:24:06

9M ago1:24:06

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In this episode I speak with Fr. Cajetan Cuddy O.P. about Thomistic Psychology: A Philosophic Analysis of the Nature of Man, by Fr. Robert Edward Brennan, O.P., edited and with an introduction by Fr. Cuddy. Aristotle wrote that “to attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.” We often read psycholog…

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ACF PoMoCon #45 Steve Sailer, Noticing 1:10:05

9M ago1:10:05

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Titus & Steve Sailer discuss his upcoming anthology of articles, columns, speeches, & essays -- the first volume of a lifetime of noticing important facts about American society that respectable institutions don't want to talk about. This time around, we talk about the Sailer Law of Female Journalism.…

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ACF PoMoCon #44 Peachy Keenan 46:39

9M ago46:39

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Titus & Peachy Keenan discuss her new book Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, a funny but spirited battlecry, to rouse the moms of America, for family & also for faith.By Titus Techera

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ACF Critic Series #54 No Country For Old Men 1:11:36

10M ago1:11:36

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Titus Techera & Lafayette Lee discuss No Country For Old Men, the Coen Bros. movie & the Cormac McCarthy novel it's based on. We talk about manliness & war, confrontations with evil, & the transformations of America, North & South in their influence on the West, the 60s, & our world now...By Titus Techera

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ACF Critic Series #53 The Life & Death of Col. Blimp 1:03:09

11M ago1:03:09

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Titus & David Polansky discuss the wonderful war-time movie The Life & Death of Col. Blimp, a Powell-Pressburger combination of propaganda & art, & a rare opportunity to reflect on British character through the Imperial wars & the World Wars, as well as on America & its wars in the comparison.By Titus Techera

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ACF Middlebrow #46 Battleground 58:03

11M ago58:03

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Titus & Jack Fowler talk about Battleground, the first major cinematic depiction of the Battle of the Bulge, the end of WW2, & the conflict that revealed American character. Happy Memorial Day!By Titus Techera

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ACF Critic Series #52 Blue Velvet 1:05:25

12M ago1:05:25

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Titus & Ryan Shinkel discuss David Lynch's Blue velvet, a movie about suburbia & the city, a boy growing up to be a man by facing evil, & the predicament of American freedom, which might mean ignoring evil or embracing it...By Titus Techera

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ACF Critic Series #51 Fight Club 1:10:00

12M ago1:10:00

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Titus & L0m3z discuss David Fincher's Fight Club & its relation to right-wing Twitter anons -- the age of agonizing men looking for causes, who attack capitalism & matriarchy but find it difficult to associate or be productive.By Titus Techera

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ACF Critic Series #50 Brazil 57:41

1y ago57:41

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Titus & David Polansky discuss Terry Gilliam's Brazil, a dark comedy, a tale of future tyranny, also a Romantic fantasy--we talk about the ways in which it describes our troubles, & more adequately than the more famous entries in dystopian science fiction.By Titus Techera

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ACF PoMoCon #43 Steve Sailer 1:13:38

1y ago1:13:38

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Titus & Steve Sailer discuss the unpleasant facts of political life in America & the study of those facts through the use of statistics. Steve talks about how he studies patterns of behavior and what conclusions this leads him to about the two major political coalitions & the ways of life they make possible, as opposed to the rhetoric & the ideolog…

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Vigen Guroian - Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination 1:08:23

1y ago1:08:23

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In this episode I speak with Professor Vigen Gurioan about the revised and expanded edition of his book Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Imagination. We discuss the power of stories, how they help can us develop self-knowledge, and how fairy tales and classic stories are essential for education and moral formation f…

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ACF Critic #49 Mulholland Dr 41:49

1y ago41:49

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Titus & Sohrab Ahmari discuss Mulholland Dr., David Lynch's story of Hollywood, love of the beautiful leading to murder--the glamour that sustains FantasyLand & the misery that leads to corruption--dreams & morality!By Titus Techera

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ACF Middlebrow #45 Nobody's Fool 55:17

1y ago55:17

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Titus & Flagg Taylor discuss Paul Newman's Thanksgiving movie, Nobody's fool, a story about a man returning to family & learning what he might have that he should give thanks for. We talk about upstate New York, a rural setting, post-industrial, becoming impoverished, & how people have to deal with aging & mortality. I compare this setting, full of…

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Ep. 52 Philip Ovadia MD Metabolic Health, Diet, Cholesterol, Heart Disease, and Modern Medicine 1:36:35

1y ago1:36:35

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In this episode I speak with heart surgeon, Dr. Philip Ovadia MD, about metabolic health, diet, science, cholesterol, insulin resistance, the US government food pyramid, Ancel Keys and the cholesterol - saturated fat -heart disease hypothesis. We discuss medical education, health insurance, scientism, and some of the obstacles doctors and scientist…

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Ep. 51 Titus Techera Dune and Bladerunner Science Fiction, Dystopia and Humanity in American Life 2:01:55

1y ago2:01:55

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In this episode I speak with Titus Techera about Dune, Bladerunner, science fiction, dystopian film, technocratic view of humanity, and the formative power of science fiction on the imagination. We discuss contemporary technological society, social breakdown, loneliness, men and women and decline in marriage, technology and trans-humanism/ transgen…

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Ep.50 On Benedict XVI -Reason, Freedom, Beauty, and the Intellectual Sources of Secularism and the New Evangelization 56:45

1+ y ago56:45

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Pope Benedict XVI / Joseph Ratzinger passed away on December 31 at the age of 95 years old. His writing and teaching have been a major influence on my thinking. So in honor of his memory and gratitude for his example, this episode is a talk I gave on Pope Benedict XVI on Five Crises of Culture and the Intellectual sources of Secularism and the New …

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ACF Middlebrow #44 Lethal Weapon 2 54:34

1+ y ago54:34

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Titus & Pete Spiliakos talk about the working class buddy cop action comedy, the relationship between friendship & justice for men, & the succsess of the Lethal Weapon franchise.By Titus Techera

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Ep. 58 William Easterly Ph.D. - Poverty, Technocracy, and the Tyranny of Experts 1:34:19

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PoMoCon #46 Montesquieu 56:38

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ACF Europe #24 The Leopard 44:35

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Ep.57 The Decline of Christianity, the Rise of the “Nones” and Philosophies of the Person that Shape Unbelief 42:42

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Ep.56 Ambassador Eduard Habsburg: Building a Family Legacy — The Habsburg Way: 7 Tools for Turbulent Times 1:01:24

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Ep.55 Seth Kapan on Fragile Neighborhoods — Relationships and Place-Based Solutions to Social and Material Poverty 1:17:41

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ACF Europe #23 Young Pope 1:06:40

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ACF Critic Series #57 Hail Caesar 54:23

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ACF Critic Series #56 Being There 48:47

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ACF Europe #22 Aguirre 47:02

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ACF Europe #21 Il Divo 1:20:42

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ACF Critic Series #55 Soylent Green 56:28

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ACF Europe #20 The Consequences of Love 1:03:58

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Ep.54 Cajetan Cuddy O.P on The Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas 1:24:06

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ACF PoMoCon #45 Steve Sailer, Noticing 1:10:05

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ACF PoMoCon #44 Peachy Keenan 46:39

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ACF Critic Series #54 No Country For Old Men 1:11:36

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ACF Critic Series #53 The Life & Death of Col. Blimp 1:03:09

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ACF Middlebrow #46 Battleground 58:03

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ACF Critic Series #52 Blue Velvet 1:05:25

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ACF Critic Series #51 Fight Club 1:10:00

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ACF Critic Series #50 Brazil 57:41

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ACF PoMoCon #43 Steve Sailer 1:13:38

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Vigen Guroian - Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination 1:08:23

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ACF Critic #49 Mulholland Dr 41:49

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ACF Middlebrow #45 Nobody's Fool 55:17

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Ep. 52 Philip Ovadia MD Metabolic Health, Diet, Cholesterol, Heart Disease, and Modern Medicine 1:36:35

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Ep. 51 Titus Techera Dune and Bladerunner Science Fiction, Dystopia and Humanity in American Life 2:01:55

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Ep.50 On Benedict XVI -Reason, Freedom, Beauty, and the Intellectual Sources of Secularism and the New Evangelization 56:45

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ACF Middlebrow #44 Lethal Weapon 2 54:34

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