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The Return to Virtue Podcast
by The Return to Virtue Podcast
Returning modern men to virtue for strength and honour knowlandknows.substack.com
Episodes
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How to be happy: The Return to Virtue Podcast #12
In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I sum up the whole of season 1: * what is virtue? * why do we need it? * how do we get it? * the natural vs. the theological virtues * how the virtues rank in importance and why This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss…
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Exercise: The Return to Virtue Podcast #11
In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss exercise and physical culture. * How can exercise benefit us spiritually? * What are some of the pitfalls? * Why Christians need to reclaim physical culture This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with…
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Hope: The Return to Virtue Podcast #10
In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of hope. * what hope is and why it can sometimes hurt * why we need God to help us hope * how hope relates to fear of God * how hope helps men to hard things This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss…
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Faith: The Return to Virtue Podcast #9
In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of faith: * why faith involves the intellect * how faith makes us smarter * why faith makes us more courageous * how faith benefits the family and society * how to grow in faith This is a public episode. If…
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Charity: The Return to Virtue Podcast #8
In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of charity: * Why charity is a love of “friendship”, as Aquinas refers to it * How love is a uniting principle * How charity helps the will of Christ live in us * How charity is the mean between the excess of...
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Prudence: The Return to Virtue Podcast #7
In episode #7 of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of prudence: * How prudence helps us choose the right MEANS to a given END * Why it ranks first among the cardinal virtues * Why young men struggle with prudence * How to develop it in your marriage and at work *...
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Justice: The Return to Virtue Podcast #6
In episode #6 of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of justice: * Why is justice ‘general human rightness’ (Plato)? * How is it ‘not part of virtue but virtue entire’ (Aristotle)? * The difference between justice and all the other cardinal virtues * What justice...
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Fortitude: The Return to Virtue Podcast #5
In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of fortitude. * How fortitude helps us overcome fear and stand firm * How it stops a man ‘loving his life in such a way that he loses it’ (Josef Pieper) * How it involves both endurance and aggression * Why...
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Temperance: The Return to Virtue Podcast #4
In this episode #4 of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of temperance: * How it controls our desires for food, drink and sex * How this relates to the current obesity and porn crisis * Why you can be a skinny glutton * Why intemperance darkens the intellect * How...
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Humility: Return to Virtue Podcast 3
In episode 3 of the Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss humility. * How it moderates the pleasure of pride (ego) as a sub-virtue of temperance * How it relates to the ability to suffer social pain * What it means to suffer well * How suffering can be good for us * The 3 acts of...
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Human Nature: The Return to Virtue Podcast #2
In the Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I apply the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Aquinas to help men return to strength and honour. In this episode, we discuss philosophy anthropology, covering three proofs for the spirituality of man: * The intellect * Free will * Knowledge of the…
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Despair: The Return to Virtue Podcast #1
In The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I apply the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Aquinas to help men return to strength and honour. In this episode, we discuss despair because suicide is the top killer of men age 18-45. * What are its symptoms? * What are its causes? * Why are the…
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Christian Masculinity Explained
In this discussion, Simple Man and I discuss a wide range of topics related to Christianity and masculinity: * 00:00 Why modern Christian men seem weak * 06:49 Why physical training matters for virtue * 18:59 Why Christ is the masculine ideal * 30:59 Why Christian men must be capable of harm *...
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Why Fixing Feminism Means Fixing Men
Megha Lillywhite writes about our decadent modern culture and posts about Art, Science and Literature. She has a powerful message that feminism is misogyny: only a return to virtue, she argues, will truly empower women. But for women to be feminine, men must first become truly masculine. In this...
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The Family is the Foundation
The West is at the dead end of its long, misguided experiment in liberalism — the idea that each man ought to be looked upon not as a member of a family but primarily as an individual. Autonomy is the core value of liberalism, and it became philosophically dominant in the seventeenth and…
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Recovering from the Red Pill
In this episode, a young military man calls in to discuss recovering from the red pill view of marriage, starting a family and changing careers. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beherleader.substack.com/subscribe
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C-Masc: How to Be a Man
The C-Masc podcast aims at recovering Christian masculinity to steer men between the Scylla of soy-boy deficiency and the Charybdis of red-pill machismo. Both are weak. Here are some of our fundamental concepts from the Church’s teaching on society and the family as articulated by Crean and...
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Do Your Reps in 2023
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beherleader.substack.com A 43-year-old man who married the same woman twice calls in to discuss his journey: I am a revert to the faith. I am a guy who was almost lost to the world. I believed in the world's false manly virtues of...
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The Tyranny of Liberalism
James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism(ISI Books, 2008) and, most recently, Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It…
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How to fix modern men
‘If the Word is to be defended, we are ready.’ That, according to Leon Gautier, sums up ‘the whole spirit of chivalry’. These are its Ten Commandments: I. Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches, and shalt observe all its directions. II. Thou shalt defend the Church. III. Thou shalt…
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From Drugs and Pickup to Catholicism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beherleader.substack.com A 28-year-old Australian man calls in to discuss mistakes from his past, breaking porn and drug habits, changing careers and finding God. Don’t miss this one.
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Learning to Forgive My Parents
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit beherleader.substack.com In this episode of Knowland Knows Talks to Bros, a 22-year-old man calls in to discuss learning to forgive his parents after a difficult time as a teenager. He also talks about his anger and grief after a close...
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The Mission for Men Today
In this interview, Fr. Longenecker answers my questions about his book Beheading Hydra: A Radical Plan for Christians in an Atheistic Age. These are some of the topics we discuss: * ‘There is an old saying, "The last thing the fish sees is the water." We are the fish.’ What is it about our water...
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How to understand the mystery of sex
Dr. James Chastek blogs at Just Thomism. Of the fate of masculinity in the modern world, he has written eloquently that, As our power over the natural world increases, so increases the fear and horror at masculinity and fighting spirit. Sure, warrior ethos is all well and good when we sent men…
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How men made feminism
I recently wrote two articles on Geoff Dench’s work: one explored how George Gilder’s story of the princess and the barbarian influenced him, and the other outlined how he deepened these insights using the fairy tale of the princess and the frog. Academia largely neglected both men. Belinda…
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Knowland Knows Talks to Bros
Bro from Eastern Europe reflects on what he learned in Part 1 and comes back with questions about polygamy, Islam, dating and other topics. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beherleader.substack.com/subscribe
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Deliverance: Of Myths and Men
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Helping a Subscriber
We discuss his relationship with his father, his dating history and what he’s looking for in the future. If you’re interested, the Callin app lets you do this direct from your mobile: https://www.callin.com/user/knowlandknows This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
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MadeByJimBob on Comedy and Idolatry
Find out more about JimBob here: https://madebyjimbob.com Please share this interview: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beherleader.substack.com/subscribe
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The Pill Changes Everything
Dr Sarah Hill’s book is available here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beherleader.substack.com/subscribe
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Pascal: The Pit and The Pedestal
Thank you for reading Knowland Knows. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beherleader.substack.com/subscribe
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The Myth of Misogyny
In this podcast, Steve Moxon (author of The Woman Racket) and I discuss, among other topics, some of the questions he’s most interested in: * What are males for? * Why do men so fiercely compete with one another to form a hierarchy? * What do females contribute to the ‘genetic filter’ mechanism?…
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The Matriarchy Mystery: Podcast
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Putin and Stalin
World-renowned military historian Martin van Creveld joins me to discuss Stalin. You can buy his book here. What did Stalin want? Western scholars have traditionally claimed it was power only. Doctrine, they claimed, was secondary, derivative - even irrelevant. But Stalin stuck doggedly to his...
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Why the Right is Spineless
Paul Gottfried is editor in chief of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is also the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Yale Ph.D. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...
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An Interview with Alexander Boot
Born in Russia and educated at Moscow University, Alexander Boot lectured on English literature, wrote art and film criticism, and made a nuisance of himself with the authorities. Pursued by the KGB, he emigrated in 1973, first to the USA and then, in 1988, to the UK. Alexander Boot is the author...
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Roosh V: From Fornication to Faith
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International Men's Conference Q&A
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Honey Badger Radio Interview
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International Men's Conference interview
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The Dirty Thirty
A few months after the death of Marx, Engels said that 'it is a peculiar fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes to the foreground’. Why is this? What recent movements show it? And can we see it today? French Ferment In his 1791 novel Justine, the…
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The Real Reasons Rome Fell
In 476, the barbarian Odoacer - with no claim to the title other than his sword - dismissed the last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus, marking the end of the Western Empire. How this happened reveals timeless truths about cultural decline: writing of the Roman colony of Antioch, for example…
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Restoring Virtue to Vanquish Porn
Daniel is a youth advocate, educator and event host. Daniel partners with schools and communities to challenge porn culture and the sexualisation of women and girls. He works with young men across Australia to reimagine healthy expressions of masculinity. A health professional, Daniel has a...
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Marx's Big Mistake about Human Nature
Marx didn’t claim communism was better able than capitalism to satisfy human wants. He claimed that it actually produced humans with better wants - less acquisitive, less selfish. This is because Marx considered psychology to be largely a product of social structure. He didn’t believe in an...
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What's Wrong with the West
Given Russia’s extraordinary rebuke to American arrogance since 2000, revisionist work on Russian and Slavic history is sorely needed, especially in conjunction with the critique of globalization. Matthew Raphael Johnson was the first among American Orthodox writers to understand Vladimir Putin…
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Hitler's Socialism: 'The Brown Bolshevik'
Perhaps the biggest lie of the 20th century is that Hitler was right wing. True, he was to the right of Marx, but he was a mainstream Leftist who gained power by way of a democratic election. He was a Socialist by the standards of his day and still appeals today to the products of an East German...
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Modern Men Need More Courage
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Rainbow Marxism
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From Education to Indoctrination
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The Price of Free Love
https://www.youtube.com/c/CoroneusPhocis ‘Without Andromeda tied to the rock, Perseus flies on.’ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beherleader.substack.com/subscribe
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