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Cultural Debris is a podcast hosted by Alan Cornett who interviews guests and explores culture in the tradition of Russell Kirk, Wendell Berry, the Inklings, the Agrarians, and the Distributists.
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Dec 9, 2025
Dec 9, 2025
23 min
Host Alan Cornett interviews author Joel Miller about his new book The Idea Machine.
Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025
56 min
My guest is my friend Andrea Kirk Assaf, whom I have known for, well, a few decades now. She is the author most recently of 365 Lessons From the Stoics as well as other books that we discuss. Andrea lives in Rome where she and her husband Tony host and teach students in a villa overlooking Vatican City. Andrea is also the youngest daughter of Russell Kirk for whom Kirktober is a celebration.
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Sep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025
1 hr 11 min
Christopher J. Scalia is at the American Enterprise Institute. He and I have been Twitter mutuals for awhile, but I had the pleasure of meeting Chris in Grand Rapids at a Kirk-Scruton conference a couple of weeks ago. Chris is a literature guy, and the conservative movement needs that. To encourage us he has written a new book from Regnery, 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read).
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Sep 16, 2025
Sep 16, 2025
16 min
Host Alan Cornett interviews R.J. (Rose) Sheffler on her new book Past Watchful Dragons from Word on Fire.
Jul 29, 2025
Jul 29, 2025
1 hr 22 min
Bernard J. Dobski is professor of political science at Assumption University. He is the author of Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc, which explores the significance of the famous author’s last published work in his lifetime. We also discuss the new Martin Scorsese Joan of Arc TV dramatization.
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Jul 8, 2025
Jul 8, 2025
25 min
Andrew Petiprin is an author and host of the Ignatius Press Podcast. He was the guest Cultural Debris Episode 45.
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May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025
1 hr 8 min
Rod Dreher's most recent book is Living In Wonder, Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age. Our conversation was recorded the day after Pope Francis died, so that was on our minds and receives a good bit of our discussion. Also, we discuss the new documentary series from Angel Studios based on Rod’s earlier book Live Not By Lies.
Live Not By Lies From Angel Studios
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Feb 6, 2025
Feb 6, 2025
1 hr 12 min
Professor Thomas M. Ward teaches at Baylor University. He is a philosopher who focuses on Medieval thought, especially the work of John Duns Scotus. He is the author most recently of After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher from Word on Fire. We discuss that book, Boethius, Stoicism, living in C.S. Lewis’s home in Oxford, and who is Johhn Duns Scotus anway?
Thomas M. Ward Website | X/Twitter
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Oct 7, 2024
Oct 7, 2024
52 min
My guest once again is His Imperial and Royal Highness, His Excellency Eduard Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and Ambassador of Hungary to The Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta. He is the author of the new book Building a Wholesome Family in a Broken World: Habsburg Lessons From the Centuries from Sophia Institute Press.
We discuss his new book, the Habsburg tradition of family, the birth rate crisis in the West, and whether the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot are real.
Eduard Habsburg Twitter | YouTube
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Sep 30, 2024
Sep 30, 2024
17 min
Carol Scott is an artist and Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Holy Cross. Caitlin Smith Gilson is a philosopher and author. She was the guest on Cultural Debris Episode 42.
Rhapsody and Redolence: The Crystal Decade
Caitlin Smith Gilson: As It Is In Heaven
Carol Scott: Website | Instagram | Facebook
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