International Engineering

This week E. Michael Jones joins the falling dominoes podcast. E. Michael Jones is an American writer, former professor at Saint Mary's College in Indiana and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine (formerly Fidelity Magazine). Jones began as an author of issues dealing with the Catholic Church from a traditional Catholic perspective and has been critical of the Second Vatican Council's consequences for Western civilization as a whole. He also writes on topics such as the argued decline of Western culture and the Culture Wars; Cultural Marxism, the Bauhaus School of architecture, as well as the mindset of modernism and postmodernism generally.

Perhaps his best known work is The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History. We discuss the current global economic conditions, medical health concerns and international control. For the second hour we are joined by Darnell in WA to discuss a number of currently relevant issues. Co-host William Repillem also contributes to the conversation.

What the Bleep Happened to Architecture

Socrates said that the order of the city was the order of the soul writ large. That observation is all the more true today—and not a compliment to the modern soul or the modern city. Most people simply don’t advert to the quiet influence the surrounding architecture has on their psyche: the shape and scale of buildings, the order and proportion (or lack thereof). The father of modern Bauhaus architecture is the German Walter Gropius, a promiscuous cad who married a promiscuous shrew named Anna Mahler, wife of composer Gustav Mahler. Dr. E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine says that Gropius painted into his architectural vision a radically new kind of building and with it, a revolution in urban planning.

In this episode you will learn:

• The subtle (?) ways in which the architecture that surrounds us tells us who we are and what our life’s priorities ought to be

• How Gropius’s rationalization of his own degeneracy got transmuted into buildings built purely for function, and ugly as sin besides

• Why rebellion against Logos leads to disorder and chaos in the external design of things

• What public housing Projects in Chicago, suburban Moscow, and industrial Poland have in common

• Why classical architecture as nurtured by Catholic principles and sound philosophy can lead the way to beautify both home and church design.