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Pints With Aquinas

Neo-Paganism, Abortion, and the Fall of the West w/ John Daniel Davidson

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. Over a twenty-year career in journalism, he has written widely for national publications including the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Guardian, the New York Post, the Claremont Review of Books, and First Things. He has also been a regular guest on many podcasts and radio and television shows, including Tucker Carlson Tonight, Glenn Beck, The Ingraham Angle, Fox and Friends, NPR, the BBC, and the Megyn Kelly Show. A Texan for many years, he now lives with his family in Alaska.

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:01.0

John, lovely to have you.

0:02.0

Thanks for having me.

0:03.0

Yes, yes.

0:05.0

I was telling you earlier, it was Andrew.

0:07.0

So I get people write to me daily asking to come on the show.

0:11.0

And my good friend Andrew Jones wrote to me he went trust me you need to have

0:15.7

John done anything Andrew tells me I just do very good very good I was telling you earlier

0:22.0

I knew Andrew at Hillsdale College, but I have not, that was 20 years ago.

0:29.0

And he, we got back in touch when he launched a new polity and we emailed and

0:36.5

corresponded a bit about that and then when I came to write the book at some point

0:40.4

I was like I need a medieval historian to check me here so I knew the perfect guy

0:46.4

Andrew Jones.

0:47.4

What kind of feedback did he give you?

0:49.4

He gave me some helpful

0:58.0

suggestions about including paganism in Rome and just generally kind of fisked my first couple of chapters which I needed.

1:08.4

So he was he's he made it into the acknowledgments as a as one of the people that kept me on the rails as I kind of tried

1:16.0

to make this argument.

1:17.0

We'll put a link in the description below to the book.

1:20.0

Could you just sum up the book you've written real quick?

1:22.9

Yeah, the book is called pagan America,

1:25.1

the decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to come.

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