Why Cowards Reject Beauty | Dostoevsky, Brutalism & Prophecy (w/ Clay Greene - Ep. 3)

Clay Greene is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Austin (UATX). He is a scholar of early modern literature and thought — and he hosts UATX's poetry club. This is Episode 3 of The Uncaptive Mind Podcast, hosted by UATX Digital Editor Audrey Unverferth. It was recorded on April 30, 2025. 00:00 — Preview 00:29 — John Keats lay dying 04:31 — Keats's poem "To Autumn" 08:00 — Cowards reject beauty 10:36 — Roger Scruton on the cult of ugliness 11:01 — Do you like modern architecture? 13:48 — Anti-art 15:22 — Why beauty still matters 17:39 — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture 20:52 — Today's crisis 24:15 — Our response 26:01 — Modern universities are relativistic 28:57 — What you should read 32:11 — Dostoevsky vs. Tolstoy 32:24 — Dostoevsky made me realize I believe in God 33:57 — Is suffering beautiful? Links: UATX: https://www.uaustin.org UATX on X: https://x.com/uaustinorg Audrey Unverferth on X: https://x.com/audrey_unver