Volume 77 (CD Edition)

Guests on Volume 77: Eric Miller on the conserving radicalism and revolutionary traditionalism of Christopher Lasch; Lisa de Boer on the depiction of everyday humanity in northern European post-Renaissance painting; Peter J. Schakel on seeing The Chronicles of Narnia as fairy tales, not just Christian allegory; and Alan Jacobs on how The Chronicles of Narnia reveal much of C. S. Lewis’s thinking on almost everything, and on how Lewis's imagination was prepared to write such books. Historian Eric Miller discusses the concerns of cultural commentator Christopher Lasch (1932-1994), who is the subject of his essay “Pilgrim in an Unknown Land: Christopher Lasch’s Journey.” The work is included in an anthology Wilfred McClay edited, titled Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past. Lasch was the author of several books and hundreds of articles and essays; he had insatiable intellectual curiosity, states Miller, and was a radical in the true sense of the term, al