Jason Craig welcomes his old friend Joseph Pearce. They make the practical case for localism and "small is beautiful" economics, tell the story of a whole community rallying to save its butcher from the regulators, and then turn to the hardest question facing Catholic fathers right now: why are so many good young men being pulled toward online white nationalism, and what do we put in front of them instead? In This Episode, We Cover:Why "small is beautiful" isn't romantic nostalgia but a workable answer to big government...
Jason Craig welcomes his old friend Joseph Pearce. They make the practical case for localism and "small is beautiful" economics, tell the story of a whole community rallying to save its butcher from the regulators, and then turn to the hardest question facing Catholic fathers right now: why are so many good young men being pulled toward online white nationalism, and what do we put in front of them instead?
In This Episode, We Cover:
- Why "small is beautiful" isn't romantic nostalgia but a workable answer to big government and globalism, and what Pearce means when he says freedom is in your pocket
- What it actually looks like when neighbors organize to defend a local butcher against zoning boards and inspectors, and why real localism means getting your hands dirty
- How Pearce left the National Front and hardcore white nationalism behind for the Catholic faith, and why he understands the pull it still has on young men
- How the modern fixation on race grew out of the Enlightenment rather than Christianity, and why identitarianism takes root in fatherless, rootless young lives
- The remedy Craig and Pearce keep returning to: handing young men the wisdom of the ages and the Church instead of the loud, childless voices online, because the solid Christian family is the hearth of civilization
Resources Mentioned
- Fraternus
- The American Catholic Land Movement: Past, Present, and Future by Jason Craig & Jared Staudt
- "Race and Education" by Joseph Pearce (The Imaginative Conservative)
- Small Is Still Beautiful by Joseph Pearce
- Small Is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
Chapters
- 00:00: Welcome, Seersucker, and Backyard Poultry
- 04:52: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful, Made Flesh
- 06:11: "Small Is Still Beautiful" and Localist Economics
- 08:33: Freedom Is in Your Pocket, Every Dollar Is a Vote
- 16:38: The Butcher vs. the Regulators
- 36:46: Pearce's Radical Past as a "Serious Revolutionary"
- 41:02: "All the Young Men Are Nazis" and Online Identitarianism
- 44:19: Race as an Enlightenment Invention, Not a Christian One
- 52:49: Fatherlessness and the Real Hunger for Identity
- 1:08:54: Raising a Catholic Family, the Hearth of Civilization
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