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More Rules Won’t Win Back Your Son (But This Will) w/ Alvaro de Vicente
2026/10/22
Alvaro de Vicente has led the Heights School, a Catholic school for boys in Maryland, since 2002. He joins Jason Craig to explain why a boy hitting puberty starts asking whether following his father will make him part of the community or get him rejected by it, and why the other men in his life matter so much at that moment. In This Episode, We Cover: Why education is the transfer of a culture, not just facts and skillsHow hiring teachers who believe in the mission does most of a headmaster’s workWhy a boy needs to hear other men say what his father saysWhy families should host one another before the house is clean and the dinner is perfect, and how those friendships let fathers correct one anotherWhy a son who knows he can come to you without being punished has less reason to lieResources Mentioned: FraternusMen in the Making, Alvaro de VicenteThe Heights ForumHeightsCastThe Heights SchoolFind Your Brothers: You Need Brothers, And They Need You.DON’T GO ALONE Fraternus gets men out from behind their screens and shoulder to shoulder, building a Catholic culture their sons can inherit. Find your brothers at https://fraternus.org/memberships/ Chapters: 00:00: Talking with men in the arena, not influencers01:58: Educating a boy vs. making a man07:01: How a school builds a real community15:17: Why boys have lost the vision of manhood20:15: When a boy asks if his dad is a typical man27:35: False rites of passage and buying a peer group33:34: The ministry of the imperfect dinner41:13: Preparing sons for sin without exposing them to it45:58: Letting your son come to you without punishment52:14: Cinderella Man and fatherly authorityProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios
Stop Handing Your Son an App. Give Him Something Real w/ Dominic Andres of Roughhouse Magazine
2026/10/15
Dominic Andres had a job and a visa lined up to sell cars at military bases in Japan. He stayed home to start Roughhouse, a print adventure magazine for boys, instead. Today, he joins Jason Craig to explain why boys are hungry for something real and why it should arrive in the mailbox. In This Episode, We Cover: Why a magazine in the mailbox breaks the spell of the internet in a way no app for your kids ever willWhat made a young writer turn down a job selling cars in Japan to publish for boysWhy boys today are deficient in reality, and why they crave itWhy the magazine is written only for boys, and how a co-ed version would get in the wayHow short, digestible pieces can hook a boy who doesn’t like to readResources Mentioned: FraternusRoughhouse MagazineThe Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden and Hal IgguldenOutlaws of Ravenhurst by Sr. M. Imelda Wallace, SLCaptains Courageous by Rudyard KiplingFind Your Brothers: You Need Brothers, And They Need You.DON’T GO ALONE Fraternus gets men out from behind their screens and shoulder to shoulder, building a Catholic culture their sons can inherit. Find your brothers at https://fraternus.org/memberships/ Chapters: 00:00: Introduction02:56: Growing up homeschooled without the internet06:39: A boys’ magazine or a car-sales job in Japan09:51: Why a print magazine for boys in 202617:51: Reality is good: the vision behind Roughhouse22:43: Why boys on a hay wagon say “this is good”27:47: Why Roughhouse is only for boys34:16: Male influencers and expertise without experience36:47: What readers and parents are saying43:10: A first book for a ten-year-old boyProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Your Success Won’t Heal Your Wounds w/ Jerry LoCoco
2026/10/08
Jerry LoCoco grew up in a trailer in rural Yuma, Arizona, the son of a violent father and a mother who became a meth addict when he was thirteen, and he spent years hiding that background behind a law degree and one accomplishment after another. None of it healed him. He joins Jason Craig to talk about the masks men build as boys, his novel, Gringo Salado, and the habits of silence, prayer, reading, and writing that finally began to heal his wounds. In This Episode, We Cover: Why Jerry sees poverty, not race, as the true enemy of kids raised in chaosHow the coping habits that keep a child safe, like sorting every person into good or bad, start damaging a grown man’s relationshipsWhy a law degree couldn’t heal his woundsWhat mimetic desire is, and how chasing what other men have leaves you emptyWhy feeling lost around forty can be a tug toward God rather than an excuse for a midlife crisisResources Mentioned: FraternusGringo Salado, A Story of Faith, Hope, and LoveDisordered Self Love, How It Saves and Then DestroysDavid TorkingtonFind Your Brothers: You Need Brothers, And They Need You.DON’T GO ALONE Fraternus gets men out from behind their screens and shoulder to shoulder, building a Catholic culture their sons can inherit. Find your brothers at https://fraternus.org/memberships/ Chapters: 00:00: Judging people raised in chaos02:39: Where the name Gringo Salado came from07:37: Poverty runs deeper than race17:22: A book that opened in his hometown23:53: Why a man has to understand his wounds36:11: The Thanksgiving play and the mask50:13: Mimetic desire and the treadmill of wanting59:50: Finding silence at Mass01:09:20: When nothing works at forty01:14:55: Looking beyond your own homeProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios
Evangelization Isn't Your Primary Job as a Catholic Man w/ Marcellino D'Ambrosio
2026/10/01
Marcellino D'Ambrosio spent years in youth ministry trying to win kids back from the school day and the sports schedule. It didn't work. He joins Jason Craig again to explain why Catholic men have mistaken their calling for a religious one, and why the real work in front of fathers is building a culture their children can actually live inside. In This Episode, We Cover: Why the Great Commission was addressed to the clergy, and why hospitality is the layman's evangelical virtueHow small acts among men—a feast-day barbecue, a bottle of whiskey for every new father—build the culture that keeps kids CatholicWhy retention, not evangelization, is the church's real problemWhy a parish or apostolate job can stall a young man's vocationThe difference between chasing status and earning honor among men who know youResources Mentioned: FraternusMarcellino's First Appearance on Sword&Spade (Spotify)Marcellino's First Appearance on Sword&Spade (Apple Podcasts)Sherwood FellowsRerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIIIJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Chapters: 00:00: Leo XIII's overlooked call to rebuild the guilds05:51: The evangelization mindset Catholic men inherited11:17: The Great Commission and the layman's real job16:51: Men as the builders of Catholic culture20:55: Start with a feast-day barbecue27:54: The church's real problem is retention33:02: When a new pastor shuts down a men's chapter37:45: Why young men shouldn't take parish jobs42:07: Chasing status vs. earning honor53:09: Building for a hundred years from nowProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Your Children Will See Your Failings Someday w/ Adam Taylor
2026/09/24
Adam Taylor, a former Marine and the son of Poetic Knowledge author James Taylor, has spent the last six years teaching his father's vision of education at St. Martin's Academy and is now co-founding St. Joseph's Academy in Mississippi. He tells Jason Craig how the goodness of his childhood carried him through a family tragedy and years apart from his father. He also makes the case that education has to reach the heart before the mind can build on it, a truth he says even classical schools can forget. In This Episode, We Cover: What poetic knowledge is—the sensory, emotional way we come to know and love reality—and what Dickens's Hard Times shows about an education that deals only in factsHow Adam came to terms with his father's failings in the years after the accident that took his mother and three siblingsWhy a father who admits fault and lets his son into his suffering keeps a bridge open to that sonHow real encounters form the imagination, and why Adam calls formation "a way to achieve prudence before your time"Why boys need to make and break things, even as high school seniorsResources Mentioned: FraternusPoetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. TaylorSt. Joseph's AcademyCornbread CatholicCatholics' Lost Cause by Adam L. TateJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Chapters: 00:00: Adam Taylor, James Taylor, and John Senior's legacy02:46: What poetic knowledge is, and the horse in Hard Times10:17: A childhood immersed in the real17:58: Seeing a father's failings, and the accident at fourteen23:35: Letting your son into your suffering26:11: How the Marines began the healing31:10: What poetic knowledge looked like at home38:59: Imagination and prudence before your time46:02: Where classical education falls short53:25: St. Joseph's Academy, Cornbread Catholic, and the Catholic SouthProduced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Stop Hunting the Devil and Look in the Mirror w/ Dr. Dan Schneider
2026/09/17
Jason Craig asks Dr. Dan Schneider, author of The Liber Christo Method, whether the Catholic fascination with exorcism is actually helping men fight. Schneider argues the real battle runs through a man's own senses and the wounds he hasn't dealt with, and Craig adds that a man who won't face those wounds leaves his family to carry them.  In This Episode, We Cover: Why an unholy curiosity about the devil backfires, and why Schneider ranks the demon third in any battle plan, behind Christ and the obstacles blocking graceHow the demon of impurity doubles as the demon of fear, and why confessing the same sin over and over can miss the unhealed wound underneath itSmall mortifications to start with, like giving up meat on FridaysWhat the imprecatory psalm about dashing babies on the rock teaches about crushing vices earlyWhy a husband's authority comes down to two duties: provide and protectResources Mentioned: FraternusThe Liber Christo Method by Dr. Dan SchneiderHoly League InstituteThe Spiritual Combat by Dom Lorenzo ScupoliUnseen Warfare, edited by St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain and St. Theophan the RecluseChapters: 00:00: Introduction03:09: Why Exorcism Content Has Exploded07:46: The Enemy in the Mirror and the Five Senses17:06: Why Impurity and Fear Share a Demon24:00: How the Demon Plays Off Your Algorithm28:07: Training One Virtue at a Time31:38: Small Mortifications and Mental Prayer35:13: Crushing Vices While They Are Small46:02: Where a Father Should Start at Home54:54: God Will Ask About Your FamilyJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
How to Discover the Life God Wants for Your Family w/ John Cuddeback
2026/09/10
Jason Craig sits down with philosopher, homesteader, and Christendom College professor John Cuddeback, author of The Intentional Household, to ask why a home no longer becomes a household on its own. They work through the ordinary parts of family life—meals, manners, diapers, shared work, the care of the elderly—and why these are exactly where a household is either built or lost. Dr. Cuddeback makes the case that the father who wants a real home has to know what he is building before he can decide what to keep out of it. In This Episode, We Cover: Why an unintentional household doesn't stop people from mattering—it just stops the home from being run as though they doWhy it is not an accident that babies need changing several times a day, and what that daily closeness was designed to communicate to a child who cannot yet understand a wordThe one place to start when the whole project feels out of reach: the family meal, eaten together with bodily presence, manners, and unhurried conversation, no matter where the food came fromWhy manners are the beginning of morals, why the father has to model them before he enforces them, and why formality deepens relationships instead of stiffening themWhy restriction alone never wins the argument with technology—the question is what the screen is replacing, and whether there is a life worth protecting behind itResources Mentioned: FraternusThe Intentional Household by John CuddebackLifeCraftSupra Dinner SocietyChapters: 00:00: Intro03:09: Why a household now has to be built on purpose09:58: Life gets harder as it gets better15:40: The part that falls apart without the father21:01: Start with the meal, whatever is on the plate25:34: What a child learns at a table the father leads36:58: Hospitality is the layman's way of preaching41:53: You cannot say no to a screen without a yes to something50:18: The home that only consumes59:10: Growing old inside the householdJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Fathers, You Have More Power than You Realize w/ Alexander Hettinga
2026/09/03
When a thousand women who had abortions were asked who they consulted about the decision, the father of the baby came out first, and by a wide margin the most influential no matter what he said.  Alexander Hettinga leads the fatherhood and family team at Care Net, a network of more than 1,300 pregnancy centers, and he tells Jason Craig what happens when those men are finally spoken to as fathers rather than handled as the problem. In This Episode, We Cover: The 2015 study that found the father of the baby is both the first person a woman consults about an abortion and the single greatest influence on her decisionWhy roughly a third of these fathers say nothing at all, and what "I'll support whatever you choose" actually sounds like to herAlexander's invitation to the father who has raised his own family well and now feels useless against everything else he seesWhy Alexander pushes back on the room full of donated diapers, and what he wants pregnancy centers to do insteadWhat a settled, married father can learn from men starting with nothing, including why the earlier a dad gets involved the betterResources Mentioned: The Musical FatherCare Net Fatherhood & FamilyDoctor DadFraternusChapters: 00:00: Introduction02:51: A violinist who fell in love with fatherhood06:00: The research that put the father at the center of her decision09:49: The forty percent who recommend abortion, and one client who had nothing17:18: Why serving the father is central, not mission drift25:35: Bravado or gentleness, and what actually reaches these men31:56: "You might think you're the Uber driver today, but you're not"34:10: The smoothies that saved lives44:37: Fatherhood starts at conception57:06: Bach, twenty children, and work-family polyphonyJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Fathers, Stop Waiting Until You Know What You're Doing w/ Brandon Sheard
2026/08/27
Jason Craig sits down with Brandon Sheard of Farmstead Meatsmith, a professed melancholic who set out to build a walled Eden where virtue would grow on trees. Instead, he found that he had picked every battle at once—home education, home medicine, home food, the family business—and run out of hours, energy, and gas. They talk about what limitation teaches a father, why the children raised in that garden went places he never scoped out for them, and what it costs a man to omit rather than lead. In This Episode, We Cover: The crisp, detailed vision of an ordered homestead that a perfectionist cannot reach, and the technique for everything that gums up the worksEutrapelia, the virtue of right recreation, and why a man who calls hand-milking the cow his play has not learned itThe whole slate of battles picked at the start—home education, no doctor visits, all the food, the family business—and the sheer limitation that ends itEducation as the meeting of two freedoms, and the son who wrote a screenplay instead of reciting Purgatorio at the milking standThe pile of omission that outweighs anything a father does imperfectly, and why sloth, not lust or pride, is the father's real problemResources Mentioned: FraternusFarmstead MeatsmithFraternus MembershipThe Spiritual Combat by Dom Lorenzo ScupoliFind Your Fight: Rugged Wisdom for Faithful Dads Who Refuse to Settle by Tyler BlanskiChapters: 00:00: Introduction04:28: A Melancholic's Perfectionism and the Walled Eden09:41: Picking Every Battle at Once14:29: Sheer Limitation and the End of the Energy Reserves20:22: Education as the Meeting of Two Freedoms26:13: Father Actively and the Pile of Omission31:17: Sloth, Not Lust, Is the Father's Problem36:54: Creating the Conditions Where Virtue Is Less of a Struggle45:07: Circling the Wagons and the Corruption Inside52:48: Lauren, Matrimony, and Turning Hearts to ChildrenJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Stop Paying Other People to Raise Your Family w/ Shawn and Beth Dougherty
2026/08/20
Jason Craig talks with Shawn and Beth Dougherty, who bought the worst land in Ohio, spent years growing food on it, and now live in a house their own children built. They cover why college stopped looking like a necessary rite of passage, why a young couple should start out poor, and how a family takes back the work it has proxied out to industry. Weddings, funerals, food, and heat all come home in the process. In This Episode, We Cover: Why Sean taught theater for 25 years as a means to an end, and how the whole arrangement was aimed at land and summers with the kidsWhy half their kids went to college and half didn't, and why neither path counted as a necessary rite of passageWhat a marriage misses when it goes straight from daddy's castle to hubby's castle without a season of having nothing but each otherHow the homeschool world became a matriarchy, and what happens when dad comes home and doesn't fitWhy the natural economy gives back more than you take, and how the cash economy inserts itself between a family and the CreatorResources Mentioned: FraternusOne-Cow Revolution by Shawn and Beth DoughertyThe Independent Farmstead by Shawn and Beth DoughertyThe Liturgy of the Land by Jason Craig and Thomas Van HornChapters: 00:00: Introduction06:02: A Lifetime of Choosing the Alternative13:06: College Is Not a Necessary Rite of Passage20:15: Start Out Poor32:05: The Homeschool Matriarchy and the Absent Father40:18: The Family as a Productive Economic Unit44:15: The Wedding Industry51:47: What We've Proxied Out and How to Take It Back59:24: Scarcity in Banking, Abundance in Creation1:09:20: Human ScaleJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Don’t Let Homeschooling Emasculate Your Son w/ Adam Taylor, Thomas Fickley & Patrick Faus
2026/08/13
Recording on location at the Kingfisher Folkfest, Jason Craig puts a blunt question to an expert panel featuring Adam Taylor of St. Martin's Academy, Thomas Fickley of St. Dunstan's Academy, and educational consultant Patrick Faus. That question? How do you keep your homeschool from emasculating your son?  In This Episode, We Cover: Why anthropology determines formation, and what changes in a boy around twelve to fourteenChristopher Alexander's teenage cottage, and why the walls of a boy's childhood keep him a boyJohn Senior's objection to homeschooling, and the full arc Adam's father traveled on itWhat a father with only two hours a day can actually do, and why asking him to be a second mother failsWhy the brotherhood a man keeps among other men is the thing his sons beg to joinResources Mentioned: FraternusThe Ways of the FathersSt. Martin's AcademySt. Dunstan's AcademyThe Children's TraditionAdam Taylor at the Cornbread Catholic Conference  Chapters: 00:00: Introduction03:15: Anthropology Determines Formation05:56: The Age When a Boy Needs Men08:41: The Teenage Cottage and the Walls of Boyhood13:08: Egalitarianism Is Not a Homeschool Problem18:20: John Senior's Objection to Homeschooling30:36: What a Father Does With Two Hours35:45: Responsibility, Risk, and the Boy at Your Elbow44:26: They Don't Want an Education, They Want to Be Known54:15: Brotherhood Is What Your Boys Beg to JoinJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Your Catholic Culture Is Just a Sticker on the Same Old Life w/ Joel Trumbo
2026/08/06
Joel Trumbo spent ten months a year overseas doing embassy security work before he took a teaching job that barely covered his mortgage and turned a childhood obsession with illuminated manuscripts into a business. In this conversation with Jason Craig, Joel walks through building Tamburn Manor—the hand-painted books, the cabins his high school sons live in, the forest school on his property—and makes the case that a man's real power sits inside his own household, not out in the political realm. In This Episode, We Cover: Why truth started Joel's move toward the Church but beauty is what kept him thereSitting in on his father's Old English class at ten and deciding Beowulf should be illuminatedThe two Adamic archetypes—the gardener who sets conditions and the craftsman who makes—and what each asks of a fatherBuilding cabins for his high school sons, and the senior project that would put a half acre in each boy's nameThe tiny house on a trailer, five kids, and the teepee his wife vetoedResources Mentioned FraternusTamburn ManorIlluminated Beowulf BookTamburn BinderyThe ArthuriadChapters 00:00: Introduction02:07: Converted by Beauty08:13: Craftsmanship as Stepping Into the Arena13:22: The Tiny House on a Trailer16:51: The Teaching Job, the Pay Cut, and the Side Business23:14: Illuminating Beowulf at Ten Years Old29:24: Building Catholic Culture vs. Branding It38:27: Tamburn Manor and the Two Adamic Archetypes46:03: A Homestead Across Generations53:58: The One Craft Every Man Should TryJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
What Recorded Music Took From Us (and How to Get it Back) w/ Andrew Tolkmith
2026/07/30
Andrew Tolkmith is the assistant literary editor at Word on Fire and author of "We Are What We Sing" in the Winter 2025 issue of New Polity. Today, he joins Jason Craig to make the case that folk music is not a genre but the way a people expresses itself, and that most men have inherited nothing to sing. They trace what recorded music replaced, how a song like Tom Dooley is born and handed down, and why the Church has always been a singing people.  In This Episode, We Cover: Why recorded music turned listening into private consumption—and what it replacedThe difference between music you choose and music a people hands downHow a real folk song gets made, using Tom Dooley as the exampleWhy every priest vows to pray the psalms daily but is not bound to say Mass dailyThree songs Andrew says every father should have in his home Resources Mentioned: "We Are What We Sing" in New Polity, Issue 6.1Word on Fire LuminorThe Stillwater Hobos, My Love, She's in AmericaKingfisher Folk FestFraternus JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios Chapters: 00:00: Introduction0:38: Inside Word on Fire's literary imprints2:51: The article—"We Are What We Sing"6:54: When recording turned music into a product14:50: The concert and the community it counterfeits18:11: Tom Dooley and how a folk song is born26:30: Canongate, the Stillwater Hobos, and a music he never inherited42:56: The vow to sing—the divine office52:48: Three songs for a father's home57:59: Kingfisher Folk Fest, August 1
Stop Waiting for a Bigger Life than This One w/ Tyler Blanski
2026/07/23
Jason Craig sits down with Tyler Blanski, author of Find Your Fight: Rugged Wisdom for Faithful Dads Who Refuse to Settle, who grew up certain that following Christ meant dreadlocks, an urban church plant, and probably a prison cell in a third world country. Now, he mows his lawn in a Minneapolis suburb and calls it his vocation. They talk about what it costs a man to trade a radical vision of Jesus for an ordinary one, why nothing about being a husband or father works without friendship in order, and what to say to the guy in his forties who can feel his fire going out. In This Episode, We Cover: Why a boy raised on missionary stories believed following Christ meant selling everything—and had to be converted toward an ordinary life in the suburbsThe collapse of a six-year plan to become an Anglican priest, and the salary that forced a move into businessWhy the book was born around fires and in parish book clubs, and why every good thing comes out of some fight with a friendThe tension the book is really about: turning the other cheek while flying a flag that says don't tread on meThe counsel for a man in his forties who's lost his fire—savor your wife, your children, and the life in front of youResources Mentioned: FraternusFind Your Fight: Rugged Wisdom for Faithful Dads Who Refuse to Settle by Tyler BlanskiTyler BlanskiThe Minnesota CatholicThe Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead by Jason Craig and Thomas Van HornChapters: 00:00: Introduction01:56: A Boring Dad Who Once Wanted to Be Radical for Jesus09:02: The Priesthood That Didn't Happen and the Job That Did13:11: The Friends Around the Fire Who Made This Book16:42: Can You Be Catholic and American at the Same Time?22:10: Detachment, Divided Interests, and Pleasing Your Wife24:44: Suburbia, Homesteading, and Where Fathers Actually Live32:55: Don't Let Your Love Grow Cold44:33: Our Lady of Grasshoppers and the Outpost of Normality51:10: Savor Your Wife, Your Children, and the Life You HaveJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.
Your Money is Making the World Worse w/ Joseph Pearce
2026/07/16
Jason Craig welcomes his old friend Joseph Pearce. They make the practical case for localism and "small is beautiful" economics, tell the story of a whole community rallying to save its butcher from the regulators, and then turn to the hardest question facing Catholic fathers right now: why are so many good young men being pulled toward online white nationalism, and what do we put in front of them instead? In This Episode, We Cover: Why "small is beautiful" isn't romantic nostalgia but a workable answer to big government and globalism, and what Pearce means when he says freedom is in your pocketWhat it actually looks like when neighbors organize to defend a local butcher against zoning boards and inspectors, and why real localism means getting your hands dirtyHow Pearce left the National Front and hardcore white nationalism behind for the Catholic faith, and why he understands the pull it still has on young menHow the modern fixation on race grew out of the Enlightenment rather than Christianity, and why identitarianism takes root in fatherless, rootless young livesThe remedy Craig and Pearce keep returning to: handing young men the wisdom of the ages and the Church instead of the loud, childless voices online, because the solid Christian family is the hearth of civilizationResources Mentioned FraternusThe American Catholic Land Movement: Past, Present, and Future by Jason Craig & Jared Staudt"Race and Education" by Joseph Pearce (The Imaginative Conservative)Small Is Still Beautiful by Joseph PearceSmall Is Beautiful by E.F. SchumacherChapters 00:00: Welcome, Seersucker, and Backyard Poultry04:52: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful, Made Flesh06:11: "Small Is Still Beautiful" and Localist Economics08:33: Freedom Is in Your Pocket, Every Dollar Is a Vote16:38: The Butcher vs. the Regulators36:46: Pearce's Radical Past as a "Serious Revolutionary"41:02: "All the Young Men Are Nazis" and Online Identitarianism44:19: Race as an Enlightenment Invention, Not a Christian One52:49: Fatherlessness and the Real Hunger for Identity1:08:54: Raising a Catholic Family, the Hearth of CivilizationJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.

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