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Christmas Special: Algis Valiunas on The Enduring T.S. Eliot

Christmas Special: Algis Valiunas on The Enduring T.S. Eliot

FromThe Claremont Review of Books Podcast


Christmas Special: Algis Valiunas on The Enduring T.S. Eliot

FromThe Claremont Review of Books Podcast

ratings:
Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Algis Valiunas, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and contributing editor at The New Atlantis, joins Spencer to discuss the great modernist and Anglican convert T.S. Eliot. In the spirit of the season, Valiunas explores how a mixture of tragedy, heartache, and providence led Eliot gradually from the sorrow and discontent expressed in his jarring masterpiece, The Waste Land, on through to conversion and the searing brilliance of Christian poems like Four Quartets.  
Released:
Dec 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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For 20 years, the Claremont Review of Books has been the gold standard for conservative criticism and political analysis. Now the CRB comes to the podcast world with a new interview show hosted by Dr. Spencer Klavan, the magazine's assistant editor. As each new issue comes out, Spencer phones up authors whose essays have prompted deeper reflection and discussion. Over a drink and a copy of the latest CRB, he'll chat with the leading minds on the Right about what's going on in politics and literary culture. New interviews appear once a month, and--as a bonus--Spencer will sit down once per issue with his boss and friend Dr. Charles Kesler, editor of the CRB, to discuss the major themes that have arisen in the news cycle and their deeper implications for the state of the nation.