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In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on the domestic political fallout of the Iran war and argues that what voters reject is not war itself so much as “forever war.” He then turns to the New Testament word miasmos to describe the “lust of uncleanness” as a deepening pattern of moral slavery, and closes with a review of Not Stolen by Jeff Fynn-Paul, a historical response to the claim that America is simply “stolen land.”

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In this episode, Douglas Wilson celebrates the Trump EPA’s rollback of the greenhouse-gas endangerment finding as a blow against economic overreach, then turns to hamartiology and the New Testament word miasma to reflect on moral pollution, false conversion, and the danger of falling back into sin. He closes with a warm recommendation of A Gentleman in Moscow as a deeply engaging novel about life in captivity under communism.

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In this episode, Douglas Wilson argues that the jury is still out on Trump’s tariffs, and the predicted instantaneous ruin did not materialize. He continues his hamartiological curriculum on miaino, or defilement, tracing its use from ceremonial uncleanness to moral corruption, bitterness, and false teaching, before closing with a review of Augustine and the Jews by Paula Fredrickson.

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In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers artificial intelligence as a modern speaking idol and discusses how to make distinctions between the useful and the demonic. Then he examines the New Testament word metraloas, or murderers of mothers, to underscore the weight and breadth of the fifth commandment in the Christian life. Finally, he reviews Bruce Gordon’s biography of John Calvin’s Institutes, tracing how that monumental work rose, declined, and was recovered across the centuries of church history.

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In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on the Super Bowl halftime show and its cultural meaning, then continues his study of sin by explaining what Scripture means by having a doubtful mind and why worry is ultimately rooted in unbelief. He closes by discussing Philip Hamburger’s Separation of Church and State, clarifying the history of the phrase and what the First Amendment actually requires.

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