The Fanfiction Reckoning (ft. Veronica Clarke)

The Church of Claude (ft. Dan Hitchens)

Further reading: * "Magnifica Humanitas [https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html]" by Leo XIV * "AI Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing [https://firstthings.com/ai-doesnt-know-what-its-doing/]" by Thomas Fowler (First Things) * "The Future of Reading [https://firstthings.com/the-future-of-reading/]" by Wessie Du Toit (First Things) * "A Boomer, But An Augustinian [https://firstthings.com/a-boomer-but-an-augustinian-on-magnifica-humanitas/]" by Jacob Phillips (First Things) * "The Pope Should Be Going to War Against A.I. Why Isn’t He?" [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/opinion/pope-leo-encyclical-ai.html] by Matthew Walther (New York Times) * If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies [https://www.amazon.com/Anyone-Builds-Everyone-Dies-Superhuman/dp/0316595640?tag=firstthings20-20], by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Conservative Culture Isn’t Real (ft. Dave Greene)

Further reading: * All of Dave Greene's essays: "Letters from Fiddler's Greene [https://fiddlersgreene.substack.com/]." * Dave's YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/@TheDistributist].

Timothée Chalamet Is Right About Art (ft. Suzy Weiss)

Further reading: * "Timothée Chalamet & Matthew McConaughey [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=424w9fJRgYk]" by Variety & CNN Town Hall. * "The Case Against Aesthetic Castration [https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-case-against-aesthetic-castration/]" by Adam Lehrer (Compact). * "Marty Supreme mirrors Timothée Chalamet’s desire [https://spectator.com/article/marty-supreme-mirrors-timothee-chalamet-desire/]" by Germán Saucedo (The Spectator) * "It’s Over for Anthony Bourdain’s Fanboys [https://www.thefp.com/p/suzy-weiss-please-take-food-less-seriously]" by Suzy Weiss (The Free Press)

Dimes Square: An Oral History (ft. Nick Allen)

Further reading: * "Frontier Cities [https://im1776.com/frontier-cities/]" by Nick Allen (IM-1776). * "New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/nyc-catholicism-dimes-square-religion.html]" by Julia Yost (New York Times). * Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right [https://www.amazon.com/Furious-Minds-Making-MAGA-Right/dp/0691255261?tag=firstthings20-20] by Laura K. Field. * "The Party Politics of Sovereign House" [https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-politics-of-sovereign-house] by Emma Green (New Yorker) * "Reconstructing the Mystical Feminine from the Ashes of the Feminine Mystique" [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/17-anna-khachiyan-reconstructing-the-mystical/id1469999563?i=1000460365533] (The Portal)

The Fanfiction Reckoning (ft. Veronica Clarke)

Further reading: * "The Fanfic Temptation [https://firstthings.com/the-fanfic-temptation/]" by Veronica Clarke. * "The Goon Squad [https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/]" by Daniel Kolitz. * The Absolute Degeneracy of Modern Writing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffvRhsViyIQ&list=WL&index=13] by The Second Story.