Fault Lines Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:03 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2641197 en-us © 2026 Fault Lines yes 013205fa-039c-5209-8512-47e4d7a3ac78 Intercollegiate Studies Institute episodic false Fault Lines is a debate series from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) that brings leading thinkers together to confront the questions dividing the American right.


Each episode goes beyond talking points to explore the real disagreements shaping conservatism, politics, and American public life. Where are the fault lines within the Right? Which differences can be reconciled, and which represent fundamentally competing visions of the future?


Hosted by ISI, Fault Lines creates a forum for serious disagreement, thoughtful argument, and the ideas shaping what comes next.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Intercollegiate Studies Institute https://storage.buzzsprout.com/fs0yg13k8i8r7t3gcgm7zvgq6l95?.jpg Fault Lines https://www.buzzsprout.com/2641197 Christian Professor vs. OpenAI Strategist: Is AI Demonic? | Dr. Zachary Porcu & Dean Ball Christian Professor vs. OpenAI Strategist: Is AI Demonic? | Dr. Zachary Porcu & Dean Ball Welcome to "Fault Lines," a debate series from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute bringing serious thinkers together to debate the political, cultural, and intellectual questions shaping our world.

In this installment, Dr. Zachary Porcu and Dean Ball debate the resolution: "AI Is a Deal With the Devil." At stake is whether artificial intelligence is just the next tool in humanity's technological progress or a type of idol that reshapes our relationship to knowledge, power, religion, and even what it means to be human.

Porcu draws on ancient mythology, Christian thought, and the history of technology to argue that AI echoes humanity's oldest stories about forbidden knowledge, spiritual power, and the temptation to transcend our natural limits. Ball counters that AI is better understood as a discovery about the nature of intelligence itself and that, despite its real risks, responsibly developed AI could expand human capacity while freeing us to focus on distinctly human questions.

The debate ranges across AI alignment and superintelligence, religious revival, human agency, technological dependence, the role of government and the Church, and whether humanity can keep control of increasingly powerful machines.

About "Fault Lines":
"Fault Lines" is an ISI debate series exploring the arguments and disagreements shaping the future of conservatism and American public life.

Go deeper with ISI:
https://isi.org/join/

]]> Welcome to "Fault Lines," a debate series from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute bringing serious thinkers together to debate the political, cultural, and intellectual questions shaping our world.

In this installment, Dr. Zachary Porcu and Dean Ball debate the resolution: "AI Is a Deal With the Devil." At stake is whether artificial intelligence is just the next tool in humanity's technological progress or a type of idol that reshapes our relationship to knowledge, power, religion, and even what it means to be human.

Porcu draws on ancient mythology, Christian thought, and the history of technology to argue that AI echoes humanity's oldest stories about forbidden knowledge, spiritual power, and the temptation to transcend our natural limits. Ball counters that AI is better understood as a discovery about the nature of intelligence itself and that, despite its real risks, responsibly developed AI could expand human capacity while freeing us to focus on distinctly human questions.

The debate ranges across AI alignment and superintelligence, religious revival, human agency, technological dependence, the role of government and the Church, and whether humanity can keep control of increasingly powerful machines.

About "Fault Lines":
"Fault Lines" is an ISI debate series exploring the arguments and disagreements shaping the future of conservatism and American public life.

Go deeper with ISI:
https://isi.org/join/

]]> Intercollegiate Studies Institute Buzzsprout-19755585 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 5534 2 full false Did Trump Fail Trumpism? | Dan McCarthy vs. Christopher Caldwell Did Trump Fail Trumpism? | Dan McCarthy vs. Christopher Caldwell Resolved: Trump Killed Trumpism

What is Trumpism, and can it survive Donald Trump?

In the first episode of Fault Lines, Christopher Caldwell and Dan McCarthy debate whether Trump has strengthened the political movement he created or undermined its defining principles. Moderated by Leah Libresco, the conversation explores immigration, foreign policy, corruption, the changing conservative coalition, the future of conservative institutions, and what a post-Trump Republican Party could look like in 2028 and beyond.

About the Speakers

Christopher Caldwell is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books. He is the author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.

Dan McCarthy is Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at The Heritage Foundation and editor-in-chief of ISI’s Modern Age. A longtime writer and editor, he previously served as editor of The American Conservative and ISI’s vice president of publications.

Leah Libresco-Sargeant is a writer and author whose work has appeared in The New York Times, First Things, The Dispatch, and The New Atlantis. She is the author of The Dignity of Dependence, Arriving at Amen, and Building the Benedict Option.

Watch on the podcast on YouTube

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]]> Resolved: Trump Killed Trumpism

What is Trumpism, and can it survive Donald Trump?

In the first episode of Fault Lines, Christopher Caldwell and Dan McCarthy debate whether Trump has strengthened the political movement he created or undermined its defining principles. Moderated by Leah Libresco, the conversation explores immigration, foreign policy, corruption, the changing conservative coalition, the future of conservative institutions, and what a post-Trump Republican Party could look like in 2028 and beyond.

About the Speakers

Christopher Caldwell is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books. He is the author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.

Dan McCarthy is Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at The Heritage Foundation and editor-in-chief of ISI’s Modern Age. A longtime writer and editor, he previously served as editor of The American Conservative and ISI’s vice president of publications.

Leah Libresco-Sargeant is a writer and author whose work has appeared in The New York Times, First Things, The Dispatch, and The New Atlantis. She is the author of The Dignity of Dependence, Arriving at Amen, and Building the Benedict Option.

Watch on the podcast on YouTube

Go deeper with ISI. Join a community of students, scholars, and citizens exploring the ideas shaping conservatism and American public life.

Learn more about the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Check out ISI on YouTube

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