Reality Check | Ep. 1 | Michael Thomas & the Catholic Land Movement
Philosopher and journalist Jan C. Bentz talks with Michael Thomas about the Catholic Land Movement, tradition, perennial truths, and the inspiration of Chesterton and Belloc.
In a time when our cultural reality is dominated by the ephemeral and the transient, the transcendent still manages to occasionally break through. When does this happen—and why? How can we modern people actively reach the perennial truth of the transcendent? And are we moderns able to adopt explicitly anti-modern attitudes?
In the Reality Check series, Jan C. Bentz explores these and other questions about philosophy, culture, art, and politics in discussions and interviews with some of today’s leading thinkers—all centered around the idea of conserving the real in a time of deconstruction.
Jan Bentz, native of Germany, teaches Philosophy at Blackfriars, Oxford. He has worked in journalism for over a decade based in Rome, Italy, covering the Vatican. His academic work focuses on Thomistic Metaphysics and Medieval thought in relation to Modernity.
