Our first episode! Tom Swiss's talk "Why The Moment Calls For Magic" from the Starwood Festival, July 2019, discussing how Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe's ideas about magic from his book Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic are relevant to the social and political moment. Read the notes for this talk (and find links to more fascinating posts!) at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thezenpagan/2019/12/magic-as-a-social-force/