Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato

Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien used consumer culture to create works of art. In this podcast, we try to draw some lessons from their lives. I'm joined by Paul Fortunato, an English professor and member of Opus Dei, who wrote a book about Oscar Wilde's "consumer modernism." We discuss how Wilde and Tolkien successfully navigated the "creator economy," and we discuss Oscar Wilde's little-known Catholicism.