Rod Dreher's latest book, Living in Wonder, seeks to combat our culture's arid secularism, encouraging us to embrace the mystery all around us. Stan and Doug endorse the idea in general but suggest some specific cautions.

Author Christine Rosen, in her book The Extinction of Experience, warns that our passion for digital technology is undermining our ability to live truly human lives.

Stan and Doug take a (mostly) nonpolitical look at J.D. Vance's family memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

Erik Larson's chronicle of the chaotic start of the Civil War raises uncomfortable questions about our own era.

Did American fundamentalists go into a broad cultural retreat following the Scopes trial? Madison Trammel's new book, Fundamentalists in the Public Square: Evolution, Alcohol, and Culture Wars after the Scopes Trial, suggests that we take another look. Stan and Doug do just that in the latest episide.

Reviewing "Bad Therapy," Stan and Doug ask why there is so much emotional distress in young people despite an ever-expanding therapeutic culture designed to eliminate it.

Stan and Doug wrestle with, question, and ultimately appreciate David Brooks's earnest new book on how to understand, encourage, and connect with our neighbors.

Stan and Doug mine the late Matthew Perry's excruciating memoir and find some sobering lessons for the living.