Episode 215: Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada explore the disconnect between our private expressions of care and the collective anger dominating politics, media and even day-to-day interactions. Drawing on Kyte’s lecture series The Search for Meaning , the conversation centers on how the philosopher St. Augustine shaped Western ideas about moral love — and why those lessons still matter today.

Kyte argues that we can understand a person’s character by what they love most. Yet, he says, modern society often defines people by what they oppose. Political language is filled with words like “fight” and “battle,” turning opponents into enemies rather than neighbors. Rada and Kyte discuss whether it’s still possible to extend goodwill toward those who hold different views, and how to live et

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