Episode · Interesting Times · 2025-11-14
Books mentioned on ‘This Is the War Against Human Nature’ | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
“There’s something very spiritually dark about the internet,” the author Paul Kingsnorth tells Ross Douthat in this week’s episode of “Interesting Times.” Kingsnorth warns against the expanding presence of technology in our lives and declares it “the war against human nature.
Paul Kingsnorth discussed The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters by C.S.
Discussed“I think if C.S. Lewis was writing The Screwtape Letters today, there would be a good few letters about how the demons can use the internet, how they can use the phones, um how they can use this to completely delude us and distract us and take us away from from our true purpose.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Against the Machine
“Paul Kingsnorth is a novelist, critic, his new book is entitled Against the Machine on the unmaking of humanity.”
Plugged Alexandria
“Well, let's let's end with a novel that you have written. Um called Alexandria, which came out in 2020, 2020.”