Forging Ploughshares

Brad and Paul discuss Anthony Bartlett's book, Love's Entanglement, which shows how the later Girard gave up on his theory and the power of revelation, and how early Girard was apocalyptic in his understanding of revelation. Failing to delineate these two sides of Girard has given us the sick Girardianism prevailing in this political and cultural moment.

(Sign up for the reading course with Ethan Vanderleek. Oct 31, 2026 – Dec 13, 2026, on William Desmond's Being and the Between here:  https://pbi.forgingploughshares.org/schedule)

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