UnHerd | UnHerd Christmas Special: Christmas is a time for chaos @UnHerd | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.

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// TIMECODES //

00:00 - 01:29 - Introduction
01:29 - 05:23 - The Idler’s Tom Hodgkinson on the history, meaning and evolution of Christmas
05:23 - 10:30 - Christmas under the Danes and during the Medieval Period
10:30 - 16:07 - The winter festival during the Reformation and beyond
16:07 - 21:08 - The eternal battle between Merry England and the Puritan impulse
21:08 - 24:37 - Are we currently in a Puritan moment?
24:37 - 28:26 - Are periods of chaos morally good?
28:26 - 30:22 - Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the meaning of the Fezziwigs
30:22 - 32:03 - The modern attack on fire and the puritanical environmentalists
32:03 - 36:38 - What were Victorian Christmases like?
36:38 - 39:05 - G.K. Chesterton on Christmas
39:05 - 40:29 - Tom Hodgkinson’s Christmas sermon from The Idler
40:29 - 41:01 - Concluding thoughts

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