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CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDictatorship and Freedom
Totalitarianism almost always rises in the name of “liberty.” History shows the pattern: societies are promised freedom, but the only freedom expanded is the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHegel to Marx to Dewey: The Creation of a New World (History of Modern Philosophy) (Remastered)
Modern man didn’t just “lose God” he replaced Him. This episode tracks the fuse from **Hegel → Marx → Dewey**, showing how philosophy shifted from *knowing*…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow to be a Failure - Part 7: Be Ungrateful
Another reliable road to failure and frustration is ingratitude, the habit of assuming that everything owed to us is a right while everything we give is a…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre We Afraid of Words?
Too often, we let fear of words charges of racism or bigotry paralyze us while taxpayers fund groups that fail obligations yet sue the government and receive…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFreedom and the Vote
Freedom has never been created at the ballot box. Voting reflects the character of a people it does not transform it. Tyrants aren’t voted out, and revolutions…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Power of Heresy
In “The Power of Heresy,” Rushdoony warns that false belief often proves more influential than faithful theology, using Marcion as a historic example of how…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkNationalism
Nationalism may seem irrational to modern thinkers, but history does not move by abstract reason or intellectual plans. Efforts to impose internationalism or a…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkResources and Advantages
Natural resources and strategic advantages do not guarantee greatness. History proves it. Constantinople lost its power. Egypt’s rich soil did not bring…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkBerkeley to Kant: The Collapse of the Outer World (History of Modern Philosophy) (Remastered)
What happens when the “outer world” collapses and everything becomes *only* “my experience”? This episode traces the chain from **Berkeley to Kant**, showing…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs “Being Yourself” Biblical?
"God loves me just the way I am" and "don't ever change" are sentiments rooted more in pop culture than in Scripture — yet they have quietly shaped how many…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkBramble Men
Jotham’s parable warns what happens when productive people refuse power and bramble men seize it instead (Judg. 9). The olive, fig, and vine were busy…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPraising the Wicked
Scripture is blunt: when God’s law is abandoned, the wicked are praised instead of restrained (Prov. 28:4). A justice system that protects criminals while…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow to be a Failure - Part 6: Demand for Perfection
Another sure path to failure and frustration is the demand for perfection from everyone around us a demand rooted in man’s fallen longing for paradise without…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkGod vs. Molech (Remastered)
"Moloch" means king. Moloch worship was state worship a god claiming total jurisdiction, and therefore entitled to total sacrifice. When the state demands more…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDaniel - Highest Heights from Deepest Depths
In this episode, Nathan Conkey looks to Daniel—a man who lost his nation, his home, and every ordinary prospect of family life—yet rose to extraordinary…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 161, January 15, 1988
R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott discuss communism, tracing its history from the 5th-century Mazdakite movement in Persia to modern Marxism in the Soviet Union…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPolitical Saviors
From ancient Rome to today, rulers have promised salvation through politics. Caesar claimed it, modern politicians repeat it. But Scripture draws a sharp line…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe New Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel was mankind’s first attempt at a one-world order: unified humanity, centralized power, and self-appointed authority replacing God. Its goal…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFreedom Under God’s
In “Freedom Under God’s Law,” Rushdoony insists that true freedom is not political autonomy but a religious reality grounded in redemption through Jesus…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Foundation
Jesus Christ warned that only a life or a nation built on Him can withstand the storms (Matt. 7:24–27). Built on man instead, it will surely fall. Even…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkBaal Worshippers
When hundreds of laws are rushed through without debate, the deeper problem isn’t politicians it’s the people. Many believe salvation comes through…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDescartes and Modern Philosophy: The Birth of Subjectivism (History of Modern Philosophy) (Remastered)
Modern life didn’t start with a “Copernican Revolution” it started when certainty moved from God and His created order to the autonomous self. This episode…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow to be a Faliure - Part 5: Be In Love With Yourself
One of the surest paths to failure and frustration is self-love elevated to the center of life, a condition in which a man makes himself his own god and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs There a Return to Religion?
There is evidence of a real return to faith in the United States, particularly within evangelical churches, which have grown significantly from 1972 to 1982…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Right to Lie?
The idea that governments have a “right” to lie is not new it goes back to Plato and later thinkers like Nietzsche, who argued that truth is dangerous or even…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkLaw and Sin
In “Law and Sin,” Rushdoony argues that God’s law addresses real, completed acts of sin rather than attempting to prevent evil through coercive control…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre We Judging Abraham Wrongly?
Modern believers routinely condemn Abraham for decisions Scripture never rebukes — his deception of Abimelech, his taking of Hagar, his apparent failures of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSocialism as a Perpetual Civil War
R.J. Rushdoony argued that socialism is not merely a flawed economic theory but a perpetual civil war rooted in a false theology. In this episode, Mark…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSovereignty, Power, and Dominion
The question of who holds ultimate authority is not merely political — it is inescapably theological. In this episode of the Chalcedon Podcast, Mark Rushdoony…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIn the Mind of Christ
Scripture reminds us that “the thoughts of the righteous are right” (Prov. 12:5) not meaning every passing thought, but the governing principles that shape a…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkNo God, No Law
When God is rejected, law loses its foundation and is replaced by power and planning. Early America functioned with minimal government because self-governing…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkReconstructing the Church
Reducing the church to an institution — defined only by preaching, sacraments, and discipline — strips it of the power that made early Christianity an empire…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDanger
“Danger” once meant being under the power of a master not merely facing trouble. In its original sense, we are in danger whenever we live under authorities…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkCease Ye from Man
A minor pleasure in life is the quiet satisfaction of “I told you so.” I once parked my old car in front of a hotel and locked it as always. A friend pulled up…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow to be a Faliure - Part 4: Indulge in Criticism
Failure is guaranteed when a person indulges freely in criticism, setting himself up as judge over both God and man. The critical spirit is rooted in the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe First Commandment (Remastered)
One God means one law. Deny the first, and you've denied the second. The modern world claims every religion is equally true Buddhism for Buddhists, Islam for…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 160, December 9, 1987 - Money and Debt
R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott discuss money and debt, emphasizing that the Bible views money as hard money (gold and silver) and limits long-term debt. They…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkProtection Against Men
People are often a problem to us through their sin and folly, and our own and many become obsessed with protecting themselves, their churches, groups, and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe State as the Embodiment of Morality
Modern political thought has increasingly replaced God with the state as the source of morality. Influenced by thinkers like Hegel, Rousseau, and Marx, the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkCovert Theonomists
Many who loudly oppose theonomy nevertheless selectively affirm God’s law when it aligns with their preferences, enforcing Old Testament commands such as…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTrick Questions
Asking the wrong questions always yields wrong answers just as the trick question “Have you stopped beating your wife?” forces a false dilemma and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow to be a Failure - Part 3: Worry
Worry is one of the easiest and most effective paths to failure because it replaces trust in God with obsessive self-reliance and fear. Instead of solving…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkNot by Bread Alone
In A.D. 840, Bertram of Corbie wrote that the soul is not nourished by physical bread but by “the bread of eternal life,” the Word of God and His grace. As…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Revival of Paganism in the Green Movement
The modern Green movement is not science — it is the revival of pagan Gaia worship, replacing the Creator with nature as the source of law and truth. From the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkMen and Many Sparrows
Our Lord declares in Matthew 10:29–31 that God cares even for the sparrows, yet He affirms, “Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre You a Patron of the Arts?
Through our taxes, we are unwitting patrons of the arts, funding millions for projects many consider frivolous or objectionable erotic shows, feminist…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkCovenants and Law
In “Covenants and Law,” Rushdoony argues that the church’s abandonment of God’s covenantal law in favor of humanistic law has fueled the suicide of Western…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs There a Theology of Insurance?
If you've ever paid an insurance premium without a second thought, have you considered what theological assumptions undergird the entire modern insurance…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSerbia, The United States, and Christianity
The United States was once non-interventionist in war while openly Christian in moral witness, earning global respect. Since World War I, however, it has…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkLoving God
Today, the average Christian gives only about 3 percent of his income to the Lord’s work far less than the biblical tithe yet feels no guilt. Meanwhile…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkNeo-Platonism vs. Christianity: Part II (Flight From Knowledge and Life) (Remastered)
This passage exposes escapism as a defining sickness of modern culture, tracing how the flight from reality has moved from the arts into the university…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Law as a Song
Our attitude toward God’s law is tragically warped today we view it as a burdensome restraint on human freedom, when in truth it is a gracious gift of love…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow to be a Failure - Part 2: Blame Everyone But Yourself
Failure is assured when a person insists on absolute independence denying all debt to God and man while continuing to blame others for every frustration and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSeizure and Property
The word “seizure” once meant lawful ownership and peaceful possession in old English law, yet today it signifies confiscation by force the very opposite. This…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 159, December 9, 1987
This wide-ranging and provocative Q&A session brings together R.J. Rushdoony and Marshall Foster to address pressing questions about Christian responsibility…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkNoninterventionism as a Constitutional Principle
The U.S. Constitution was designed as a noninterventionist document, limiting federal power through express powers and protecting self-government in families…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Meaning of Words
Charles Curtis once observed that modern legal interpretation concerns itself not with the plain meaning of words but only with their boundaries how far they…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDirection of the Law (Remastered)
If man established property rights, man can abolish them. "Thou shalt not steal" isn't a cultural preference it's God's decree. Property is His ordination, not…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAbelard
In “Abelard,” Rushdoony argues that Peter Abelard’s revival of pagan philosophy reintroduced a fatal division between law and love, deed and intent, dissolving…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIn God We Trust
Men today have no right to complain about the growing crises and collapse around us, for they have reaped exactly what they sowed. When we trust in civil…