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Summary: Podcast by Titus Techera

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 ACF Middlebrow #35 Metropolitan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:49:35

Titus & Sam Goldman talk about Whit Stillman, Metropolitan, & the twilight of WASPs: The romance of the Doomed Bourgeois in Love facing democracy--the reaction on the left & the right to the abolition of gentlemanship--the Tocquevillian view of middle class societies & the middlebrow art that typically reflects their experience.

 ACF Europe #15 Chernobyl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:55:34

Titus & Flagg Taylor talk about the remarkable HBO series Chernobyl, the only serious cinematic treatment of the peace time event that came closest to nuclear Armageddon. We talk about the Soviet regime, Russian character & Russian humor, the friendship & conflict between science & politics, & the limits of liberalism when it comes to storytelling, to say nothing of globalization.

 ACF PoMoCon #35 David Goldman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:49:17

Titus & David Goldman discuss Chins & America, the two models for political assimilation on a continental scale in modern politics. We talk about competition, the hard teaching war offers, & the requirements for leadership, national vision, & respect for knowledge in a society.

 ACF Europe #14 Dear Comrades | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:06:16

Titus & Flagg Taylor talk about the best movie of 2020, Konchalovsky's story of a suppressed revolt in Soviet Russia, where the very existence of revolt is suppressed ideologically. A story about a mother & daughter, about private life, our embodied nature, yearning for holiness, & how politics can turn all of these things into crimes.

 ACF PoMoCon #34 Angelo Codevilla | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:34:36

Titus & Angelo Codevilla talk about cancel culture as a tool of oligarchy & the way democratic politics could overcome it: Cancellation is a two-way street, the more it's wielded, the more oligarchs & their minions isolate themselves from the people.

 ACF PoMoCon #33 Vaccines & Digital Media | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:12

Titus & Matt Shapiro (Polimath) talk about his data project on COVID--cases, deaths, state by state, across the US. We also talk about the great big good news story the media isn't dealing with well: America's vaccination success, which seems to augur a return to normal life--or a chance to put life back together again--by summer. (We also talk about Looney Tunes!)

 ACF Europe #13 Afterimage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:33

Titus & Flagg discuss Andrzej Wajda's last movie, a portrait of Poland's most famous painter, Wladyslaw Strzeminski, his struggle against Communism, how tyranny destroyed him, & his activity as a teacher.

 ACF PoMoCon #32 Slackers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:10:31

Titus & Oliver Traldi talk about slacking & slackers--music, movies, & the attitude of the 90s--how slack has been replaced by activists, therapy, & work; what there is to learn from slacking--how Socrates was a slacker; & why even serious endeavors require slacking, idleness, leisure, to afford inspiration.

 ACF PoMoCon #31 Marriage problems | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:57

Titus & Scott Yenor talk about his new book, The Recovery Of Family Life, the problem of loneliness, lack of marriage character, & of a public education that puts career above anything else. Feminism is a great success in achieving what it promised--autonomy, freedom, choice--but not so when it comes to happiness...

 ACF PoMoCon #30 The crisis of the election | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:34

Titus & Pete Spiliakos continue their discussion on rhetoric & politics with criticism of the corruption of political institutions & the need to create a new political elite, that's populist & interested in governing.

 ACF PoMoCon #29 Democracy & Rhetoric | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:46

Titus & Pete Spiliakos talk about Peter Lawler as pundit, how he influenced Pete as he became a pundit, Peter's realism about political matters & the distinction between politics & rhetoric. Then we talk about our political drama.

 ACF Critic Series #41 Make Spielberg Great Again | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:21

Titus & Armond White discuss Spielberg, America's preeminent pop artist, the most important Hollywood director of the last half-century, & Armond's new collection of essays & reviews on Spielberg.

 ACF Europe #12 A Hidden Life | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:59:16

Titus & Flagg Taylor talk about A Hidden Life, the new Terrence Malick movie, a beautiful portrait of faith & sacrifice, as well as an examination of the political corruption of the simple life of peasants in light of Plato's Republic. A true story!

 ACF Masters #12 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:41:08

Titus & Zena Hitz discuss The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, the last of our series of five Sturges comedies--going back to war, small town America, & rescuing losers from their fate, Sturges employs the powers of comedy to save a girl from the dishonor of being pregnant without a husband & a young man from the dishonor of failing to serve in the war, rededicating America to babies, hope, & peace in the process!

 ACF Masters #11 Hail the conquering hero | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:37

Titus & Zena Hitz discus Preston Sturges's war comedy--how the military transforms America into a very fun, very rambunctious democracy, & a small town boy can become mayor! Down with the business oligarchy, up with the public spirited--this is his most Capra-esque story.

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