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Matt and Sam continue the 100th episode extravaganza by answering more truly excellent listener questions and hear from more friends of the show. Topics include: leftwing politics and orthodox Christianity, how to maintain hope (especially on the socialist left), learning to love Freud, complicated family politics, and more! Plus: Dissent co-editor Tash Lewis sings "Happy Birthday" to Matt in Welsh.
Sources:
Charles Péguy, Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1911)
Wesley Hill, "After Boomer Religion," Commonweal, April 29, 2019
Herbert McCabe, "The Class Struggle and Christian Love," in God Matters (2012)
Matthew Sitman, "Against Moral Austerity: On the Need for a Christian Left," Dissent, Summer 2017
Dan Walden, "Gender, Sex, and Other Nonsense," Commonweal, March 1, 2021
Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time(1988)
Pat Blanchfield, "Death Drive Nation," Late Light, Nov 1, 2022
Casey Blake and Christopher Phelps, "History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch," Journal of American History, Mar 1994
Sam Adler-Bell, "Beautiful Losers," Commonweal, Mar 11, 2020
— "Jews in the diaspora must resist the inhumanity being done by Israel in our name," New Statesman, Nov 29, 2023
— "Good Enough," The Baffler, April 2024
Kim LaCapria & David Mikkelson, "Does This Photograph Show Bernie Sanders at a 1962 Civil Rights Sit-In?" Snopes, Mar 3, 2016
