Brad Birzer on Mythic Realms, Great Film, and the American Western

In this episode:

• Brad Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College, joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film
• a crash course in all the must-see movies and TV series that teach about justice, charity, and finding one’s place in the moral order
• how the frontier, captured in Western film and movies, represents the possibilities that have embodied the American spirit

Texts Mentioned:

• Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film by Brad Birzer
• The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
• Beyond Tenebrae by Brad Birzer
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt
• Enemies of the Permanent Things by Russell Kirk
• The Batman Trilogy
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Friday Night Lights Fight (Revised)” by Peter Lawler
• Stranger Things
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
• Tenet
• Interstellar

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