Ep. 2586 The Civilization Wreckers, with Carl Benjamin

The Wanderers is a novel by Richard Price, published in 1974. The story is set in the Bronx, New York City, from mid-1962 to mid-1963 and follows the lives of an Italian-American youth gang known as the Wanderers. The novel is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, each focusing on different members of the gang as they navigate gang rivalries, racial tensions, and personal struggles. The characters, including Richie Gennaro, Joey Capra, Buddy Borsalino, Eugene Caputo, and Perry LaGuardia, face various challenges as they transition from adolescence to adulthood, dealing with issues such as violence, family problems, and the search for identity and belonging.

In 'The Abolition of Man', C.S. Lewis delivers a defense of objective value and natural law, originating from his Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham in 1943. Lewis argues that education should be conducted within the context of moral law and objective values, which he terms the 'Tao'. He criticizes modern attempts to debunk these values, warning that such actions could lead to a dehumanization of society, resulting in what he calls 'Men without Chests' – individuals whose emotions have not been trained to conform to reason. The book emphasizes the universal nature of traditional moralities across different cultures and warns against the dangers of moral relativism and the reduction of human beings to mere objects of scientific analysis[2][4][5].