Theopolis Podcast: Q&A Session (Social Media, Corporate Election, Postmillennialism & Preterism, Abortion)

January 14, 2022 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

Peter Leithart, Jeff Meyers, and I have another question and answer session, answering further questions left by listeners on our Curious Cat page and elsewhere.

You can follow the Theopolis podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, and on most podcast apps. You can read show notes over on the Theopolis podcast website. You can also see past episodes I have contributed to by clicking the ‘Theopolis Podcast’ link in the bar above. If you would like to leave a question for us to answer, please do so on our Curious Cat page.

Unruly Media and Our Disordered Discourse

January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

Technology, Formation, Community, and Narrative in the Digital Age (Michael Sacasas)

July 3, 2020 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

Michael Sacasas, one of the most thoughtful contemporary commentators on technology and media, joins me for a wide-ranging conversation.

Read more of his work here:

‘The Analog City and the Digital City’
‘Narrative Collapse’
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Recommended Books:

Neil Postman, Technopoly
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy
Albert Borgmann, Power Failure
Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

Clickbait

May 11, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

In today’s world, where there seems to be an overflow of information, is clickbaiting justified?

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Sex Recession?

April 5, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ 3 Comments

Any thoughts on the recent research on decreased rates of sex among under 30s, especially men? I would particularly be interested in any thoughts you might have on what it suggests about relations between men and women in society today.

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The Challenge of Navigating Social Media, an Interview with Glen Scrivener

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

Angela Nagle, Kill all Normies

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

Today I review Angela Nagle’s book Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right. I discuss some of the dynamics of contemporary online culture, especially the way that gender shapes things.

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Conversation with Paul VanderKlay on Jordan Peterson, Social Justice, Gender, the Church

February 8, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

I’ve followed Paul VanderKlay’s YouTube channel for some time. Paul is a minister in the Christian Reformed Church of North America, based in Sacramento. Seeing a profound interest in deep conversations with young men in particular following the rise of Jordan Peterson, he has made such conversations a key dimension of his ministry and now has a large following and extensive engagement with a demographic that so many other ministers are uncertain of how to reach. He recently invited me to have a conversation with him on his channel. We had a long call yesterday and this was the result.