{"id":294933,"date":"2025-02-17T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-102-becoming-cultured-without-a-bow-tie\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:30:46","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-102-becoming-cultured-without-a-bow-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-102-becoming-cultured-without-a-bow-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: 102 &#8211; Becoming Cultured Without a Bow Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Apr 5, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Poet-philosopher James Matthew Wilson returns to the show to<br \/>\nread poems from his new collection, <em>The Strangeness of the<br \/>\nGood<\/em>, including his &#8220;Quarantine Notebook&#8221; series, and to<br \/>\ndiscuss the decay and renewal of Catholic intellectual life.<\/p>\n<p>Topics discussed include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The present narrowing of Catholic intellectual life in<br \/>\nconservative\/traditional circles<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>How do you become cultured, in an authentic and non-pretentious<br \/>\nway, when you\u2019re not participating in a culture?<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>His ideal approach to reciting poetry<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>The poets we most need to be reading now<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>What needs to be done to build on the work in Catholic<br \/>\naesthetics done by figures like Maritain, Hildebrand, and<br \/>\nGilson<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>What it&#8217;s like to be an orthodox Catholic teaching at a merely<br \/>\nnominally Catholic university<\/li>\n<li>Trying to get through to college freshmen who think they<br \/>\nalready know that there\u2019s no value in the Western patrimony,<br \/>\nthere\u2019s no truth, and life is meaningless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch this interview on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ip02uvHlvck\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ip02uvHlvck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: This interview was recorded before James Matthew Wilson<br \/>\nannounced his appointment as founding director of a new MFA in<br \/>\nCreative Writing, at the University of St. Thomas, Houston (in<br \/>\ncollaboration with multiple past Catholic Culture Podcast guests,<br \/>\nparticularly Joshua Hren of Wiseblood Books). Learn about the<br \/>\nprogram here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stthom.edu\/public\/index.asp?AQ_Action=getPageByURL&amp;AQ_URL=\/Academics\/School-of-Arts-and-Sciences\/Division-of-Liberal-Studies\/Graduate\/Master-of-Fine-Arts-in-Creative-Writing\/Index.aqf\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.stthom.edu\/public\/index.asp?AQ_Action=getPageByURL&amp;AQ_URL=\/Academics\/School-of-Arts-and-Sciences\/Division-of-Liberal-Studies\/Graduate\/Master-of-Fine-Arts-in-Creative-Writing\/Index.aqf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Strangeness of the Good<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strangeness-Good-Including-Quarantine-Notebook\/dp\/1621386325\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strangeness-Good-Including-Quarantine-Notebook\/dp\/1621386325\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All interviews with James Matthew Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL-tePYzIXOsQ2OgM0Bh-Nq1LUpYF2877q\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL-tePYzIXOsQ2OgM0Bh-Nq1LUpYF2877q<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/102-becoming-cultured-without-a-bow-tie-james-matthew-wilson\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 5, 2021 Poet-philosopher James Matthew Wilson returns to the show to read poems from his new collection, The Strangeness of the Good, including his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}