Listen "Some of Them Wrote It Down: George Schmidt"
Episode Synopsis
Chaplain, podcaster, and religion scholar George Schmidt joins us to talk William Blake, the support found in reading, and Star Wars galore! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Manny Warman, Columbia University Bicentennial panel exhibition on banned books [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Columbia University Archives and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Saul D. Alinsky Rules for Radicals Richard Attenborough Shadowlands Augustine of Hippo James Baldwin / Nikki Giovanni Soul! Interview Lynne Reid Banks The Indian in the Cupboard Jean-Michel Basquiat Gregory Bassham The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy William Blake Murray Bookchin Lenny Bruce How to Talk Dirty and Influence People Charles Bukowski "The Crunch" Edward T. Chambers Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice The Charlie Daniels Band "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" Cyberpunk Rodney Dangerfield Gilles Deleuze "Postrscript on the Societies of Control" The Doors Dungeons and Dragons Warren Ellis et al. Transmetropolitan Allen Ginsberg Wayne Glausser Rod Hilton "The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order" Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception Nicholas Hytner The History Boys Vasily Kandinsky John Keats Elias L. Khalil "Making Sense of Self-Deception" Emmanuel Levinas C. S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity George Lucas et al. Star Wars George R. R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire series Julie E. Maybee "Hegel's Dialectics" China Miéville John Milton John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch Alan Moore Jerusalem José Esteban Muñoz Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics Jean-Luc Nancy New Criticism Reinhold Niebuhr Friedrich Nietzsche Marjorie Perloff Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media Marjorie Perloff Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century Marjorie Perloff Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Jordan Peterson Todd Phillips Joker Plato The Republic Religion & Justice podcast Bruce Rogers-Vaughn Barb Rosenstock / Mary GrandPré The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series J. R. R. Tolkien The SilmarillionWendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice Ludwig Wittgenstein Sheldon S. Wolin Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism William Wordsworth
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