In this interview, the Houston Centre sits down with Paul Nedelisky, co-author (with James Davison Hunter) of Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality and Assistant Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

Nedelisky here discusses his intellectual formation; the failure of science to prescribe moral values; the emergence of a new meritocratic culture; the necessity of tradition for moral formation; and much more.