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🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College, |
0:23.3 | an accredited four-year Great Books Institution, is built on the ancient Western tradition |
0:27.6 | of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West. The college offers its students |
0:32.1 | an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition, the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, |
0:36.8 | and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church. Students, the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual |
0:37.8 | heritage of the Catholic Church. Students experience the illumination of imagination and intellect |
0:42.3 | through the great books and traditional disciplines, literature and philosophy, mathematics |
0:46.2 | and theology, science and Latin, and an outdoor program second to none. The college celebrated |
0:52.3 | an in-person graduation with its seniors last year and welcomed |
0:56.6 | its largest freshman class ever this year. Learn more about the college's unique space in the world |
1:01.4 | of American higher education at Wyoming Catholic.edu. We have with us Benjamin Story. He is a |
1:08.0 | professor of politics at Furman University, co-director of the Tockville |
1:12.6 | program there. He and his wife, Jenna Silver Story, who is also at Furman and the other director |
1:19.6 | of the Tockville Program, they have a book just out called Why We Are Restless on the Modern |
1:26.6 | Quest for Contentment, which is our topic today. |
1:30.7 | Ben, thank you for joining us. |
1:32.2 | Mark, thanks so much for having me on. |
1:33.6 | It's wonderful to talk to a first thing on it. |
1:36.3 | Okay, well, it'd be nice to talk about why we are restless, but I don't have time today. |
1:41.0 | I've got other things to do. |
1:42.9 | Okay. |
1:48.3 | Don't we all? First, right? Well, first, just tell us quickly, |
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