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Hello, welcome to the editor's desk.

This is the podcast where we take a closer look at the essays and articles in the latest print issue of

First Things Magazine. I'm Rusty Reno. I'm the editor of First Things Magazine, and I'm here

with you today at the editor's desk. I'd like to welcome Matthew Crawford to the podcast. We're

going to talk about his March

26 essay, Love in the Time of Mass Migration. Welcome to the podcast, Matt. Thanks for having

me, Rusty. You open this essay with an evocation of the ethic of hospitality.

And give us a sense of what is the kind of classical ethic?

I guess it's not even, it continues to this day.

Yeah, it's probably universal, I think, at timeless. Yeah, hospitality means welcoming someone without regard to their

merit. It's a kind of grace that's extended, that's outside the realm of exchange. And, you know, it tends to induce gratitude in the recipient.

So this seems like there's a kind of moral economy of grace and gratitude, which, interestingly,

share the same root etymologically.

So I think you feel yourself part of a community of the gracious, let's say, that tends to

transcend class divisions, political divisions, national distinctions.

It's sort of an encounter between one human being and another or a household.

And guests can overstay.

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