Joseph Pearce: From Former British National Front Hooligan to Gifted Catholic Writer
The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast · Dan Ryan
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Show Notes
My guest today is Joseph Pearce who is chatting to us on the eve of his first speaking tour of Australia sponsored by Hartford College in Sydney.
Joseph Pearce is the internationally acclaimed author of many books, which include bestsellers such as The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc.
Today we discuss:
- His journey from far right politics with the National Front in Britain in the 1970s and his conversion to Catholicism
- What he makes of the current nationalist parties that have emerged in Europe over the last few years and how they compare to those he was associated with in his early life
- His thoughts on Nietzschean vitalism which has become popular among sections of the online right
- Whether evangelisation alone is sufficient to repair the West