Leisure the Basis of Culture (with Christian Leithart and John Ahern)

Christian Leithart and John Ahern join me for a discussion of Josef Pieper's essential essay 'Leisure: the Basis of Culture': https://amzn.to/4317bzk. Within our discussion, we mention several other books and articles, including the following: Mark Helprin, 'The Acceleration of Tranquility': https://ayjay.org/helprin.html C.R. Wiley, 'In the House of Tom Bombadil': https://amzn.to/41jPn0P Johan Huizinga, 'Homo Ludens': https://amzn.to/3WZxMsn John Hughes, 'The End of Work: Theological Critiques of Capitalism': https://amzn.to/4jVZYqd John Ahern, 'The Alienated Man's Guide to Modern Music': https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-21/the-alienated-mans-guide-to-modern-music Find out more about the work of my guests in the following places: https://christianleithart.com/ https://goodworkmag.com/ https://littlewordbooks.com/ https://theopolisinstitute.com/te-deum-music-fellows-program/ Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/. If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos and podcasts and my research more generally, please consider supporting my work on Patreon (www.patreon.com/zugzwanged), using my PayPal account (bit.ly/2RLaUcB), or by buying books for my research on Amazon (www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3…3O?ref_=wl_share). You can also listen to the audio of these episodes on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/alastairs-adversaria/id1416351035.