Joseph Bottum - Role of the Family vs. Growing Central Government (JBO-26)

Praxis Circle Contributor Dr. Joseph Bottum (nicknamed “Jody”) is a bestselling author, philosopher, and social critic. Praxis Circle interviewed Dr. Bottum as a leading, multi-talented, and entertaining American intellectual-a thinker concerned with the influence of religion in America and the West, arguably a prophet about America’s current state of cultural chaos, and a source of mature perspective about our national condition and the pathways forward.
Dr. Bottum has written extensively on literature, philosophy, and religion. His books include the widely noticed sociological study An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and Spirit of America (2014)-along with the literary study, The Decline of the Novel (2019), the childhood memoir, The Christmas Plains(2012), and the collection of his Christmas stories, Frankincense, Gold, and Myrrh (2024). He has twice been the Number 1 bestselling author on Amazon with his Kindle Singles, and his children’s verses appeared in The World Is Awake, winning the Christopher Award for best children’s book in 2008.
In this clip of his interview, Jody Bottum discusses the inherent impulse for government to take control.
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