Leaves in the Wind - By David Bentley Hart

"Leaves in the Wind" Hosted by David Bentley Hart, PhD. Leaves in the Wind is devoted to all the things I have been discussing for years—World Literature; Religion, East and West; Philosophy (with a current emphasis on philosophy of mind); Theology; Metaphysics; Culture; Music; The Visual, Plastic, and Dramatic Arts, including Cinema; Baseball, including an obsessive veneration of Frank Robinson; Asian Arts, Languages, Literatures, Philosophies, and Religions; Japanese Aesthetics; Why Frank Robinson was the greatest player in the history of the game; Political Theory; Romanticism; Crab Cakes; Why there should be a national monument to Frank Robinson; The Sciences; Obscure Books; Philosophical Idealism; and so on. As ever, I write in various forms—essays, short stories, long disquisitions, dramatic dialogues, poems, satires, conversations with Roland, or whatever else takes my fancy. I make every effort to be as diverting as possible without becoming merely facetious, and as reflective as possible without becoming merely ponderous. New material appears more or less weekly. One regular feature is devoted to great but largely unknown works of literature. This follows from an article of mine that has proved more popular than I could have anticipated, “Books from a Vanished Library,” which also served as the introduction to my collection The Dream-Child’s Progress . One recurring feature are Q&A posts in which I attempt to answer questions that have come my way from subscribers, either on a particular post or on some topic that I have addressed elsewhere in my work. I even occasionally try to answer questions on topics I have never addressed before at all, if I can think of something sufficiently insightful, witty, or flippant to say. Now this podcast here, is added to the mix. I can promise that it will be entertaining. I can even promise that it might occasionally—just for mischief’s sake—be profound. Subscribers enjoy full access to the newsletter and website , and they never miss an update. Every new posting on the newsletter goes directly to their inbox. The rate at present is based on a very dubious set of calculations regarding likely subscriber numbers, fees, taxes, and time expended in maintaining the newsletter. There are monthly subscriptions as well as yearly, the latter adding up to less than the former over the course of twelve months; there is in addition a special category for “Founding Subscribers” set at a higher rate, for those who out of the sheer goodness of their hearts might want to help keep the whole enterprise running; that subscription comes with the right to give two free six-month subscriptions to the newsletter as gifts to friends, priority in my Q&A posts, and (of course) my profound gratitude. To find out more about the company that provides the tech for this newsletter, visit Substack.com . (Rising from his humble beginnings—laboring in obscurity at a manual typewriter, nourished entirely on the blue crabs and oysters he was able to gather up along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay each morning, then forced to live a peripatetic life wandering Cambridge to Cambridge—David Bentley Hart eventually insinuated himself into the company of influential men and women and then, by their good offices, into print. He now lives in a savage region where Maryland crab cakes have to be delivered by overnight air delivery. His last remaining ambition is to visit Kyoto before he dies.)

Leaves in the Wind - By David Bentley Hart is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #40

  #40 - "A Farewell to Harms: On departing the US, bards, miracles, Hell, philosophers, and a few other things" - Eugene McCaraher and David Bentley Hart

  Sep 8, 20261h 4m

  Episode #40 - "A Farewell to Harms: On departing the US, bards, miracles, Hell, philosophers, and a few other things" - Eugene McCaraher and David Bentley Hart https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p/a-farewell-to-harms?utm_source=youtube As one of us (Lily) is currently engaged in the tedious and nerve-wracking business of moving overseas, which leaves no time this month for our normal recorded conversation with a fascinating and long-suffering guest, the other of us (Sesame) decided we should make that move itself a topic of discussion. The exchange ranged widely, however, covering the current state of society and politics throughout the developed world, the American genius for stupidity, Bob Dylan as compared to Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon, the Christian socialist tradition, Lily’s deplorable THC and late-night rage-posting habits, Sesame’s ambition to become the new Lytton Strachey, salacious silhouettes, the Tao Te Ching, miracles, hell, conversion stories, credulity, analytic philosophy of religion and why it is neither philosophy nor religion, the apparent breakup of the once glorious romance between RD and JD, why it is nearly impossible to find a language in which to say “An oneiric comportment toward reality” without sounding fatuous, and so much more.

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  Episode #39

  #39 - "Before Albertson and Blakely: The Quality of Today’s Scandals" - Eugene McCaraher and David Bentley Hart

  Sep 2, 202647 min

  Who’ll Ever Forget Them? https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p ... Tomorrow, the two of us—Sesame and Lily—will be talking to David Albertson and Jason Blakely about their new book Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope . As ever, we are releasing a preliminary bit of chatter between the two of us, touching lightly upon tomorrow’s interview, but mostly taking stock of the current state of things, weighing it in the balance, and finding it wanting. We discuss the sad story of Jason Arday, the current political situation, the disappointing quality of today’s political scandals, blue books, surgery, the failure of perfect beauty and perfect moral goodness to establish any stable relationship between themselves, Ross Douthat’s odd estimate of the relative proportions of evil on left and right, 60 Minutes , time and tide, tide and time, POTUS and Natalie and First Love, and many things beside.

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  Episode #38

  #38 - Burl Horniachek and "To Heaven's Rim"

  Aug 12, 202655 min

  Episode #38 - Burl Horniachek and To Heaven's Rim I had a conversation with the poet and anthologist Burl Horniachek, prompted by, but not limited to, his recently released anthology of Christian verse To Heaven's Rim , which collects poetry dating from the earliest centuries of the faith up until 1800. It is dedicated entirely, moreover, to poets outside the Anglophone world (in translation), and succeeds better than any other anthology at giving readers a proper sense of the sheer scope--cultural, historical, and geographical--of the Christian world. We discussed the anthology, particular poets in it, and particular poets excluded from it. We also spent some time talking about the nature of translation and the special problems that attend translating verse.

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  Episode #37

  #37 - "Tom Holland's School Days" - Eugene McCarraher and David Bentley Hart

  Jul 22, 202645 min

  Episode #37 - "Tom Holland's School Days" - Eugene McCarraher and David Bentley Hart That was the closest thing to a clever title we could think of https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p ... Tomorrow, deo volente , we shall record a conversation with Tom Holland, despite having discovered at the last moment that he is not, in fact, the fellow who plays Spider-Man or Telemachus, but rather the distinguished British historian. As is our wont, we have recorded some idle banter on the Vorabend . Our topics, as ever, were no better organized than our wandering wits. We discussed, among other things, J. D. Vance’s recent “memoir” of his “conversion” to “Catholic” “Christianity”, Integralism, Christian Nationalism, Post-Liberal Orderlies, J. D. Vance’s natural resemblance to the demonic titan at the end of Ghostbusters , the mystery of American white Evangelicalism, the Great Library of Alexandria, the World Cup, the utter spiritual vacuity of J. D. Vance, J. D. Vance’s blood-and-soil resentments, Rhode Island’s ethnic mix, Tom Holland (not the historian, the actor who plays Spider-Man), and Tom Holland (not the actor who plays Spider-Man, the historian), and much much more.

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  Episode #36

  #36 - "Capitalism, Myth, Jonathan Pageau's Hysterics & Other Distractions"

  Jul 8, 202655 min

  Capitalism, Myth, Helen of Troy, Jonathan Pageau's Hysterics, Automated Vistas... https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p ... Eugene McCarraher and David Bentley Hart resume their monthly conversation after a hiatus occasioned by David's house move and the submission of Eugene's manuscript, The Automated Vistas , to Yale University Press. The conversation begins by touching on AI-generated correspondence, David's recent translation of the Tao Te Ching , and anecdotes about Thomas Aquinas. David and Eugene also discuss Sven Beckert's recent historiography of capitalism, which Eugene compares to Trevor Jackson's The Insatiable Machine , and proposes a distinction between industrial and "super-industrial" society. The discussion then turns to J.D. Vance's conversion memoir Communion , Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited , and Malcolm Muggeridge. The conversation concludes with an extended critique, led by Hart, of the right-wing cultural commentator Jonathan Pageau's objections to Lupita Nyongo's casting in Christopher Nolan's upcoming Odyssey adaptation, including a detailed discussion of the etymology of "Helen." Forthcoming on the podcast is a conversation with Tom Holland (not the one playing Telemachus in The Odyssey ).

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