Eric Miller, biographer of Christopher Lasch and a professor at Geneva College, plus longtime porcher Jason Peters of Hillsdale College address the role of imagination in shaping our shared reality. Matt Stewart, an associate editor of the FPR website, introduces this duo that has impacted his life in important ways.
Highlights
1:00 Matt Stewart, teacher’s pet/pest and herb connoisseur
Eric Miller: “The Instructed Imagination”
6:00 Hannah Coulter v. Mark Heard
13:30 Collegiate conscience and imagination
16:00 Augustine’s commonweal
20:00 O’Connor’s name calling
23:00 Walker and Wendell looking for hope
Jason Peters: “Imagination: Not Whimsical but Fatal”
27:45 Last year’s speech and this year’s joke
29:30 The propositions begin
35:00 Stoves and stand-up
38:00 Rainbows on the run
43:00 Unified Kauffman and computerized thinking
50:00 Fatalities and old farts
Resources
Speaker bios and conference videos
Conference co-sponsor Plough
Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music
