Seeking the Hidden Thing Podcast

An abiding frustration of mine is that so many--even people I like--get the "friend-enemy" distinction wrong, apply it wrongly, muddle it up, and in so doing miss much of the potency of the concept. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

Aaron Renn wrote an interesting piece today observing that Evangelicalism does not seem to produce elites. In this piece I share some thoughts on why I think this is the case.Seeking the Hidden Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Sponsorship PartnersFoxNSons CoffeeSteve Fox is one of “our guys” and he sells coffee. Good coffee. If you live in the US — sorry Canadians…too much government red tape involved in shipping coffee over the bor… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

Athenian and I get together to begin working through the foundational concepts for Gadamer's argument that it is intuition and not method that give us access to understanding and thus truth.Athenian Stranger and I work through the first of these crucial foundational concepts for Gadamer as he works to establish intuition as the ground of understanding and thus truth. The first of these is Bildung or culture. How is it that we have access to something that transcends our particularity? Can we grasp the universal, that which transcends us and binds us into a whole? We begin this effort “from below” with this idea of culture, Bildung.[Note: our conversation is cut short because the Thanksgiving guests that Athenian was expecting arrived.]Sponsorship PartnersFoxNSons CoffeeSteve Fox is one of “our guys” and he sells coffee. Good coffee. If you live in the US — sorry Canadians…too much government red tape involved in shipping coffee over the border…my supply comes hand delivered — he can ship you your coffee right to your doorstep. Go to the FoxNSons website now and use the promo code “kruptos” for a 15% discount.Axios Fitness CoachingJD is also one of “our guys” and he wants to help you get fit and stay fit for what is coming. Head over to Axios and get started today!Seeking the Hidden Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

In this episode I am joined by Todd Lewis who hosts the "In Praise of Folly" podcast. We talk about the factionalism problem on the right, why this problem exists, why it matters and what can be done.The interview between Benjamin Boyce and Nick Land that we reference throughout can be found here: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

You can find This Present World: Aphorisms for Knowing God here:Find more of Steven DeLay’s work on his website: https://stevendelay.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

Giorgio de ChiricoHere are the paintings we mentioned by de Chirico: Here is the article the Ben cites where de Chirico critiques offers an alternative to leftist art:G. de Chirico, Il ritorno al mestiere [translated]Here is the link to Ben’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RadioFreeHistorySponsorship PartnersFoxNSons CoffeeSteve Fox is one of “our guys” and he sells coffee. Good coffee. If you live in the US — sorry Canadians…too much government red tape involved in shipping coffee over the border…my supply comes hand delivered — he can ship you your coffee right to your doorstep. Go to the FoxNSons website now and use the promo code “kruptos” for a 15% discount.Axios Fitness CoachingJD is also one of “our guys” and he wants to help you get fit and stay fit for what is coming. Head over to Axios and get started today!Seeking the Hidden Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

I had Ben Fleming on to talk about a subject that has occupied his focus of late, that of "art" and why it is so bad today.My apologies to the listener. I had to cut Ben off short when we were recording because something came up suddenly in this thing known as “real life,” whatever that is. We plan of finishing up the discussion next week focusing more exclusively on what happened to art in the 20th century.You can find Ben’s series on art here: https://www.youtube.com/@R… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

Listen now | Athenian and continue the discussion of how to read Gadamer and then dive into the text with the important forward and the first section dealing with the problem of method as the grounding for truth.Sponsorship PartnersFoxNSons CoffeeSteve Fox is one of “our guys” and he sells coffee. Good coffee. If you live in the US — sorry Canadians…too much government red tape involved in shipping coffee over the border…my supply comes hand delivered — he can ship you your coffee right to your doorstep. Go to the FoxNSons website now and use the promo code “kr… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

I have Daniel Tyrie on to talk about the political project that he is heading up to bring the issues surrounding Canadian nationalism and remigration into the mainstream political discourse.You can find more information about Daniel’s organization here: The Dominion SocietySponsorship PartnersFoxNSons CoffeeSteve Fox is one of “our guys” and he sells coffee. Good coffee. If you live in the US — sorry Canadians…too much government red tape involved in shipping coffee over the border…my supply comes hand delivered — he can ship you your coffee right to your doorstep. Go to the FoxNSons website now and use the promo code “kruptos” for a 15% discount.Axios Fitness CoachingJD is also one of “our guys” and he wants to help you get fit and stay fit for what is coming. Head over to Axios and get started today!Seeking the Hidden Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe

Seeking the Hidden Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Sponsorship PartnersFoxNSons CoffeeSteve Fox is one of “our guys” and he sells coffee. Good coffee. If you live in the US — sorry Canadians…too much government red tape involved in shipping coffee over the border…my supply comes hand delivered — he can ship you your coffee right to your doorstep. Go to the FoxNSons website now and use the promo code “kruptos” for a 15% discount.Axios Fitness CoachingJD is also one of “our guys” and he wants to help you get fit and stay fit for what is coming. Head over to Axios and get started today! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe