🎙️ Sentiment Without Judgment: Faith, Politics, and the American Conscience In this episode, Halifax lawyer and moral theorist Shawn A. Scott examines Peggy Noonan’s reflection on Charlie Kirk’s televised memorial service and what it reveals about the rise of a self-consciously Christian Republican Party. The event—part revival, part rally—unites forgiveness and hatred in a single liturgy, exposing the fracture at the heart of America’s moral imagination. Scott explores how Noonan’s lyrical t...
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🎙️ Sentiment Without Judgment: Faith, Politics, and the American Conscience In this episode, Halifax lawyer and moral theorist Shawn A. Scott examines Peggy Noonan’s reflection on Charlie Kirk’s televised memorial service and what it reveals about the rise of a self-consciously Christian Republican Party. The event—part revival, part rally—unites forgiveness and hatred in a single liturgy, exposing the fracture at the heart of America’s moral imagination. Scott explores how Noonan’s lyrical t...
Laughter Before the Fire: Irony and the End of Meaning
Tribunal of Conscience
14 minutes
1 month ago
Laughter Before the Fire: Irony and the End of Meaning
🎙️ Laughter Before the Fire: Irony and the End of Meaning In this episode, Halifax lawyer and cultural theorist Shawn A. Scott takes listeners inside the moral collapse hiding beneath modern wit. Using Maureen Dowd’s 2025 column “We’re All Going to Die — Soonish!” as a case study, he explores how irony—once the conscience of civilization—has become its anesthesia. Drawing on the legacy of David Foster Wallace, Scott traces the journey from prophetic irony to what he calls cruel irony: laugh...
Tribunal of Conscience
🎙️ Sentiment Without Judgment: Faith, Politics, and the American Conscience In this episode, Halifax lawyer and moral theorist Shawn A. Scott examines Peggy Noonan’s reflection on Charlie Kirk’s televised memorial service and what it reveals about the rise of a self-consciously Christian Republican Party. The event—part revival, part rally—unites forgiveness and hatred in a single liturgy, exposing the fracture at the heart of America’s moral imagination. Scott explores how Noonan’s lyrical t...
