Archive - Utopian Idiots

What IS classical education, anyway?

A three-part podcast conversation

Mar 27 •

Breakfast at lunch

Fasting is not a fad

Mar 26 •

August 2023

On the road with Laura Ingalls Wilder

Apologies for the long delay in sending anything out here—the writers have been busy with PhDs, pro-life activism, and a wide range of other writing…

Aug 29, 2023 •

Jonathon Van Maren

February 2023

Farewell to my father

Intermittent, shallow breaths, bed he lay upon. A gurgle, a grimace, one last gasp, and gone. Such was the manner of my father's passing on January…

Feb 9, 2023 •

January 2023

Aquinas vs. Musk

The limits of transhumanist fantasies

Jan 17, 2023 •

December 2022

How (and why) to memorize anything

The true story of a journalist who achieved the 'impossible'

Dec 20, 2022 •

Great novels and recovering a Christian "social imaginary"

Over the past several months, I have been working on an outline for a sequel to my 2016 book The Culture War, conducting interviews and burying myself…

Dec 8, 2022 •

Jonathon Van Maren

November 2022

Following Anne of Green Gables

My wife is an obsessive fan of Anne of Green Gables, the melodramatic and mischievous redhead from the Maritimes who captured the hearts of millions. A…

Nov 7, 2022 •

Jonathon Van Maren

We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It

A review of Tom Phelan's wonderful memoir

Nov 2, 2022 •

Jonathon Van Maren

October 2022

PG Wodehouse's guide to fighting fascism

What the creator of Jeeves and Wooster can teach us about defying evil

Oct 3, 2022 •

September 2022

#2 - Dr. John Cuddeback on Wendell Berry

A conversation about one of America's greatest living writers

Sep 14, 2022 •

50:11

More gratitude, less anger

How a lack of gratitude is killing conservatism

Sep 7, 2022 •

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