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Dustbowl Diatribes

Laurie M Johnson & Spencer Hess
Dustbowl Diatribes
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  • Dustbowl Diatribes

    Season 4, Episode 16: Digressions on the Historical Tensions Between Civil Society, Revolutions, and Baroque Excess

    28/10/2026 | 1h 35 mins.
    Spencer and Laurie finish up their discussion of Abbé Sieyès’ famous essay “What is the Third Estate,” and begin an interestingly related and not digressive conversation on the excessive and luxurious expressions of the Baroque period.
  • Dustbowl Diatribes

    Season 4, Ep. 15: This Just In! Third Estate Still Out to Satisfy Its Desires Without Losing Its Pretensions

    26/09/2026 | 1h 27 mins.
    Laurie and Spencer discuss Abbé Sieyès' famous essay "What is the Third Estate," which lit a match under the French Revolution. Was the third estate up to the task of civil society?
  • Dustbowl Diatribes

    Season 4, Ep. 14: Kingsnorth On How Cooked We Are in the Age of the Machine

    29/08/2026 | 1h 3 mins.
    Laurie and Spencer interview Paul Kingsnorth, author of New York Times bestseller Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity, about what we're up against.
  • Dustbowl Diatribes

    Season 4, Episode 13: How We’re Learning to Stop Worrying & Love the AI Buildout

    31/07/2026 | 1h 6 mins.
    Spencer and Laurie discuss AI, data centers and the possibility of ethical guidelines from the Church and other sources in this July 2026 episode of Dustbowl Diatribes. The "Secret Grange," for patrons of the Maurin Academy only, followed.
  • Dustbowl Diatribes

    Season 4, Episode 12: Chris Smaje on How and Why Communities Ain’t Publics

    03/06/2026 | 1h 23 mins.
    Spencer and Laurie interview Chris Smaje, author of (most recently) Finding Lights in a Dark Age.
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About Dustbowl Diatribes
We'll dive into discussions of Christian community and Christian anarchism, the thought and practice of Catholic Worker houses past and present, why we're stuck in cycles of futility, and possible means of transcendence.
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