Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Other Happenings with Ryan McDermott and Elise Lonich Ryan

Cohosts Ryan McDermott and Elise Lonich Ryan have a conversation about the art that has accompanied them through 2020. They discuss the mysterious ending of Pulitzer-nominated Heroes of the Fourth Turning, a play that explores the political beliefs of four conservative Catholics and has had multiple runs on Zoom. Ryan and Elise share a love of Marilynne Robinson and critiques of Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life. Ryan explains how the Norwegian show Beforeigners ties into his project Genealogies of Modernity, and Elise recommends the best nature writing.   Reading the signs of the times   The relationship between affect and reason   Can you make sense of the present?   How sci-fi and dystopia help us find meaning in times of anxiety   Affective responses and structures of feeling   Franz Jäggerstätter and the intellectual life   American transcendentalism and sentimentalism   Wilma Theater production of Heroes of the Fourth Turning The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu "Unpacking My Library" by Walter Benjamin Tenet Inception Flourishing in the Wake of COVID-19 Marilynne Robinson on The Ezra Klein Show Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Jack by Marilynne Robinson Lila by Marilynne Robinson Home by Marilynne Robinson "A beginners guide to The Ezra Klein Show" Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery A Hidden Life The Thin Red Line Andrei Tarkovsky Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson Beforeigners Genealogies of Modernity