[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 3: Nostalgia ft. Canada Mike

October 4th, 2021  |  7 mins 46 secs

cormac mccarthy, lasch, nostalgia, progress, progressivism

Canada Mike fills in for John for the third installment of our series on Lasch's True and Only Heaven. Mike and Emmet detail Lasch's argument and consider the necessary relationship between progressive ideology and nostalgia. They talk about living in an eternal present, Cormac McCarthy as subverter of American tropes, the frontier as a "zone of innocence" and more.