Pandemic of Lunacy

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Carl and Todd welcome philosopher J. Budziszewski to discuss his insightful new book, The Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy. They delve into the current societal confusion surrounding morality, ethics, and identity, exploring the philosophical underpinnings of these issues. The confusion in the society has caused us to dig deeper and to think more thoroughly about these things, but the desire to perpetuate the lunacy has also caused the other side to dig deeper and come up with much more elaborate justifications. – J. Budziszewski With a blend of humor and serious inquiry, the conversation reveals how the church can respond to contemporary challenges with clarity and conviction. We were pleased to award three listeners a copy of Pandemic of Lunacy, authored by J. Budziszewski. Congratulations to Daniel F. from Elizabethton, TN, Kevin A. from Bakersfield, CA, and Catherine N. from Chillicothe, OH! Show Notes: Creed & Culture Publishing: https://creedandculture.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Let's My name's Carl Truman. I'm Professor of Biblical and Theological
0:53.3	Studies at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania.
0:56.7	And for this academic year, I'm also the Bush Family Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame.
1:07.1	And I'm here, as always, with my longstanding friend and co-host, the Reverend Todd Pruitt,
1:12.3	who is pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church. That's a congregation in the Presbyterian Church
1:18.0	in America, in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Good to see you, Todd.
1:22.9	Good to see you, Carl. I thought about you just the other day. Well, I try not to think of you often,
1:28.4	but, you know, I was thinking about you just the other day because you mentioning Harrisonburg,
1:32.8	you know, we're not too far from Washington, D.C. and Mary Harrington is going to be in
1:38.3	Washington, D.C. She is. On March 5th to do a lecture for the Hillsdale campus, the Washington, D.C. campus of Hillsdale
1:45.8	College. And I think I'm going to try to get out there to be there. If you're anywhere in the
1:50.9	Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, get on the first things website. Check out the lecture.
1:56.4	Mary Harrington's going to be giving. I think that's going to be a great, great time.
2:00.6	Yes, I'm bummed not to be there. I think that's going to be a great, great time. Yes, I'm,
2:01.2	I'm bummed not to be there. I'm tragically going to be sitting, drinking a cocktail at the
2:07.2	Piazza Navona in Rome at that time. I'd much rather be in D.C. with you, Tard of course.
2:13.4	I'm sure of that. Yeah. I'm sure of that. Well, it's a great pleasure today to introduce a special guest.
2:21.5	Some of our audience, you may have heard of this guest before.
2:25.8	His books come with a phonetic guide as to how to pronounce his surname.
2:32.5	He is the philosopher. Jay Bukyshevsky. He's professor of government and
2:43.3	philosophy at the University of Texas in Austin. If you know of him, you'll know that he's written
2:48.8	wonderful books on the morality and ethics of sex.
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