Dorothy's Place

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Sinopse

A conversation about rebuilding community and creating a moral economy. Catholic-flavored but ecumenical, kinda radical, lots of books mentioned. Intro/outro: Nobody's Fault but Mine (RocknRolla Soundsystem edit)

Episódios

  • Episode #33: Jamie Price on Sargent Shriver's Politics of Conscience

    02/01/2023 Duração: 49min

    Guest host Joe Waters (co-founder and CEO of Capita) joins Elias for a conversation with James R. Price, co-author with Kenneth R. Melchin of a new biography of the founder of the Peace Corps and head of Lyndon Johnson's War of Poverty in the 1960s. The focus is on the way Shriver (1915-2011) brought an instinctive spirituality to public service while avoiding sectarianism of any kind. Price is the executive director of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute.Copies are available here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/spiritualizing-politics-without-politicizing-religion-the-example-of-sargent-shriver-james-r-price/17522834. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #32: D.L. Mayfield on Discovering Dorothy Day in Her Humanity

    28/11/2022 Duração: 58min

    Pete and I talk to D.L. Mayfield, author of Unruly Saint, Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times. This new biography puts a special focus on Dorothy as a mother and on the Depression-era launch of the Catholic Worker newspaper. Mayfield captures the charmed chaos of Catholic Worker houses, along with the enormous suffering that surrounded them in these years.Mayfield recounts how a copy of Day's The Long Loneliness helped her find her way out of a scrupulous white evangelicalism toward a different kind of Christian witness.Copies of the book are available here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/unruly-saint-dorothy-day-s-radical-vision-and-its-challenge-for-our-times-d-l-mayfield/17308724 Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #31: Josh Corey on Arendt, Heidegger, Poetry and the Novel

    31/10/2022 Duração: 01h10min

    A conversation with our first creative writer on the podcast, Evanston-based Joshua Corey, a poet, novelist, translator and critic. We talk about his remarkable longform poem, Hannah and the Master (a kind of dreamscape reflection on the intertwined lives of Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil and other figures) and his new novel, How Long Is Now.Josh's personal site is here: http://www.joshua-corey.com/. His wonderful substack column is here: https://joshuacorey.substack.com/. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #30: The Saintly Mayor: Giorgio La Pira of Florence

    06/06/2022 Duração: 29min

    For this conversation, we join Joe Waters (of Capita)to talk to Mario Primicerio, now president of the La Pira Foundation, about his long friendship with fellow Florentine mayor, the late Giorgio La Pira. La Pira is remembered as being a bridge builder, working with Catholics and Communists in his beautiful Italian city in the late 1950s and 1960s. La Pira was also a friend of Thomas Merton and undertook a controversial mission to Hanoi to meet with Ho Chi Minh at the height of the Vietnam War. The occasion for our conversation is Solidarity Hall's forthcoming release of a biography of La Pira, The Power of Hope. (Ordering info on the Solidarity Hall website: https://solidarityhall.org/.) Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #29: Michael Budde on Whether American Empire Will Take Down American Christianity With It

    21/03/2022 Duração: 50min

    Pete and I talk to Mike Budde about his new book, Foolishness to Gentiles, a collection of powerful essays asking how Christians can justify killing so many other Christians (Ukraine as only the latest instance), whether Dorothy Day is best understood as an anarchist, and how the Church could become an authentic counter-culture. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #28: Pete talks about Pragmatism

    27/09/2021 Duração: 32min

    Pete describes himself as a capital P pragmatist (and a small D democrat) and offers us his take on this school of thought. In this chat we take a quick tour starting (naturally) with William James before getting to two of Pete's former teachers, both pragmatists: Cornel West and Roberto Mangabeira Unger (the guy in the headshot). Let's hear it for "democratic experimentalism"! Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #27: Arizmendi's Reflections and the Making of Mondragon

    10/08/2021 Duração: 54min

    A conversation about Solidarity Hall's new translation of the Reflections of Fr. Josemaria Arizmendi, the founder of the Mondragon cooperatives. Elias and Pete talk about the nature of Arizmendi's social vision, the power of cooperative culture, and the workplace as a center of social transformation.To download a free PDF of the new translation, go here: https://solidarityhall.org/in_action/arizmendi-reflections-translation/. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #26: Pete Davis on his new book Dedicated

    29/04/2021 Duração: 44min

    We talk with Pete about his law school graduation address that went crazy viral and led to his new book about the nature of "long-haul" commitment. And about remarkable people with remarkable accomplishments who show us how to make those choices to stick with a vision. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #25: Bob Elder on Calhoun: American Heretic

    10/03/2021 Duração: 58min

    Pete and I talk with Bob Elder about his new biography of the infamous John C. Calhoun, the spiritual founder of the Southern Confederacy and its economic foundation in slavery. We explore the range of Calhoun's ideas and why some of them--such as his views on secession--are not (like Calhoun himself) dead and buried but still alive in numerous places today. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #24: Daphna Levit on Wrestling with Zionism

    08/02/2021 Duração: 52min

    Pete and I talk to Israeli-born Canadian author and activist Daphna Levit about her new book of essays recovering the wide spectrum of dissenting Jewish ideas about Zionism. Beginning with founding figures like Theodor Herzl and Ahad Ha'am, she highlights voices and views of Albert Einstein, Martin Buber, Noam Chomsky, and Hannah Arendt, among several contemporary writers. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #22: Nate Tinner-Williams on Black Catholicism

    26/10/2020 Duração: 49min

    This country's 3 million Black Catholics in the U.S. recently got the news that Archbishop Wilton Gregory (Washington DC) has become the first African American cardinal. Why then have the U.S. bishops not publicly acknowledged the Black Lives Matters movement? We talk to Black Catholic seminarian and musician Nate Tinner-Williams about this question and his move from evangelical Christianity to Roman Catholicism and how it led him to a discovery of the roots of Black Catholicism in the U.S. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #21: Fred Dewey on Recovering Public Life

    03/08/2020 Duração: 01h16s

    Pete's back and he joins Elias in interviewing Fred Dewey, author of The School of Public Life and a political/cultural activist. In the aftermath of the Rodney King riots, Fred helped lead a decade-long effort to establish neighborhood councils, now about one hundred, for the City of Los Angeles. Until 2010, he was director of Beyond Baroque, a poetry and cultural center in Venice CA, where projects included bringing segregated neighborhoods into dialogue through poetry. Over the last decade, Dewey has conducted free, public working groups in California and across Europe, at community centers, squats, schools, art spaces, and other sites, using the writings of Hannah Arendt. His Portable Polis, in 2017, met at ten sites across Berlin with Arendt texts on the purposes of each. He is based in LA and Brussels. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #20: Dan Walden on the Joys of Classical Greek

    04/06/2020 Duração: 57min

    Why has the literature of ancient Greece always cast such a spell over modern readers? I dust off my own rusty skills in Greek with Dan Walden, a member of the classics department at the University of Michigan, as we discuss the Iliad, Sappho's poetry, and Plato’s Symposium—and why we share an enthusiasm for them in the original Greek. Along the way, we somehow manage to talk about St. Gregory of Nyssa, Tom Stoppard’s play, The Invention of Love, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #19: Novelist Cadwell Turnbull on his widely-acclaimed The Lesson

    18/03/2020 Duração: 43min

    A conversation about Cadwell's debut novel, The Lesson, a post-colonial vision of an alien invasion of the U.S. Virgin Islands (in a blue-white seashell-shaped craft) with a series of wonderfully bizarre twists. We also talk about growing up in the islands, the importance of creating a culture of cooperatives and cooperation, and a future fiction project. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #18: Scott Beauchamp on his Iraq memoir, Did You Kill Anyone?

    17/02/2020 Duração: 57min

    The subtitle of the latest book from the wonderfully literate Scott Beauchamp is "Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture." In this conversation, Scott and I talk about boredom, ritual, community, honor, and the symbolism of cigarettes. Other topics are the war poetry of David Jones, the philosophy of Byung-Chul Han, and his new book about dead malls and the sublime. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #17: Andres Bernal on Working with AOC and the Green New Deal

    09/12/2019 Duração: 52min

    A conversation about Andres' friendship with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his experiences as part of her winning 2018 campaign, the Green New Deal initiative, and (with Pete's help) how to deconstruct "The Lion King." Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #16: Mike Strode on the Solidarity Economy

    11/11/2019 Duração: 54min

    Chicago not only has a new mayor but new politics, including grassroots initiatives such as the Kola Nut Collaborative, a hybrid of timebanking and community organizing. Pete and I get a read on all these things from Mike Strode, the founder of the KNC, about his path to the cooperative movement and four of his creative inspirations: Steve Biko, Ralph Ellison, Hoyt Fuller, and Hubert Harrison. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #15: Eric Miller on Christopher Lasch and Wendell Berry

    14/10/2019 Duração: 50min

    Pete and I talk to Eric Miller of Geneva College about why Christopher Lasch still matters and what we saw at the recent Front Porch Republic conference featuring Wendell Berry. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #14: Samantha Hill on Hannah Arendt's Relevance at this moment

    19/09/2019 Duração: 48min

    The election of Donald Trump in 2016 brought new readers to Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism (published in 1951). Pete and I talk to Samantha Hill, assistant director of Bard College's Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, about the insights Arendt's thought offers us today. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

  • Episode #13: Adam K. Webb on Deep Cosmopolitanism

    09/09/2019 Duração: 57min

    Amidst a global culture war between the forces of neoliberal atomization and incorrigible fundamentalists, Adam Webb is proposing the creation of a deep cosmopolis, a global alliance of tradition-minded defenders of the poor. His own international background (UK, Spain, Peru, China)gives Webb fascinating insights into how the local and the global might combine forces. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at solidarityhall.substack.com/subscribe

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