After Virtue with Tom Angier
Title: After Virtue - Why the West Risks Collapse Without Heeding MacIntyre's Moral Wake-Up Call
Guest: Tom Angier
Recorded: October 2025
A couple of years ago, an algorithm recommended a title to me. It arrived among another 30 books and sat untouched on my shelf for almost two years. When I finally opened it, I felt as though I had discovered a map of the modern world.
The book was After Virtue, written by Scottish-American philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in 1981. His central argument is startlingly relevant today: Western society has lost the shared moral framework that once made meaningful…
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