The Reading Wheel Review – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Trey Dimsdale talks with Dr. Ruth Wisse about her book, If I am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

In this episode, Trey Dimsdale talks with Katharine Birbalsingh about her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way.

In this episode, Trey Dimsdale talks with Dr. Daniel Mark about his book, The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good.

In this episode, Trey Dimsdale talks with Mark David Hall about his book, Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism: Why Christian Nationalism Is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church.

In this episode, Trey Dimsdale and CRCD’s senior fellow John Arthur Nunes discuss W. E. B. DuBois’s The Gift of Black Folk. Nunes is currently serving as interim president at California Lutheran University.

This episode features a special interview with Michael Wear, the founder of the Center for Christianity in Public Life about his new book, The Spirit of Our Politics. The conversation between Michael and the CRCD’s executive director, Trey Dimsdale, mentions a review of the book published in the Acton Institute’s quarterly magazine, Religion & Liberty. That review can be found at this link.

Dr. Stephen Presley, senior fellow in religion and public life at the CRCD and author of Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World Like the Early Church, joins CRCD executive director Trey Dimsdale for an engaging discussion on bridging divides, engaging the world, and building and preserving institutions on this week’s Reading Wheel Review podcast.

This episode features a discussion with Francis Beckwith regarding his book, Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant. This month marks the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the Christian faith’s most influential theologians. Trey Dimsdale and Dr. Francis Beckwith dicuss St. Thomas’s influence across Christian traditions and the ways that his thought might be used to find common ground for ecumenical, and even interfaith, cooperation on matters that concern all of us.

This episode features a discussion of Kevin Vallier’s All the Kingdoms of the World. Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.

This month, Dr. Mark Dooley joins us to discuss the work of the late Sir Roger Scruton. Mark is an Irish philosopher who has the honor of being Sir Roger’s literary executor. He is the author or editor of several books related to Sir Roger’s life and legacy including an intellectual biography, Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach. The second edition this work is due out this year from Bloomsbury.