so, yes, I see episode 12 has dropped, "Aftermath"

2 hours and 37 minutes is a lot of material.  Will get to it.  
Just saw it in the last hour.

That big old post on Roger Scruton blathering on about highbrow in `99 turning into a plea to take jazz seriously as an anti-Adorno stance in `09 will have to wait for some other time.  I've been meaning to get back to Scruton and the legacy of conservatives who might otherwise rant about cultural Marxists ignorantly recycling Adorno's  not-so-brief against pop music as art for a while now but I wasn't expecting The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill to drop in 2021. So a pile of things I'd meant to blog about this year have been tabled because I've got only so much time and energy.  Chronicling the history of Mars Hill was one of the big projects of this blog for a time and Cosper's project has been nothing if not ambitious.  If Episode 12 is like Episode 11 it should be substantial.  I've got other thoughts to share later about something a friend from the early MH shared about the divergent and not-always compatible forms of arguments that seem to be collapsed together in Cosper's project but ... if you saw the time ... I've got a pile of listening to do.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/rise-and-fall-of-mars-hill/mars-hill-podcast-driscoll-finale-aftermath.html

That Mark didn't stick around to see how many Mars Hill marriages didn't end up in divorce is a given but it will be interesting to see how much that factors into the episode.

2 thoughts Nathan Robinson on rightwing conspiracy--even if progressive/liberals have their version of conspiracy agitprop (Randall Balmer), Doug Wilson single-handedly proves Robinson's point has some merit

Recently at Current Affairs Nathan Robinson wrote up a piece about how conservatives have been manufacturing scares to protect monied interests and stoke fear for generations. He has also argued that such paranoia-selling has not been characteristic of the left. 

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/11/how-conservatives-manufacture-ghost-stories-to-protect-the-powerful 

a fugue on "The Lick" in the style of J. S. Bach by Josiah Sprankle--I've got some thoughts on how The Lick lends itself to modal mutation, transposition, and being set against its own inversions and retrogrades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9WE7fMfbRk

It's not "quite" The Lick because the seventh degree is turned into a leading tone and the rhythms are de-syncopated but Sprankle did say the idea was to write a fugue on The Lick after the style of J. S. Bach.  

William Wallace II as an embryonic variation on themes from Doug Wilson's No Quarter November--revisiting the Wilson influence on Driscoll via thematic concerns

 I realize this is a contentious point but one I keep coming back to.  Mark Driscoll has made no secret of Doug Wilson's influence on him and while thanks to Midrash and being a member of Mars Hill I know Driscoll took a dim view of R. L. Dabney and Wilson's ideas about the American Civil War, when it came to gender, sexuality and marriage Mark was openly positive about Wilson's ideas being formative for him.

This is a point that people who admire Wilson and distrust Driscoll might have to actually think about. Compare what Driscoll wrote as William Wallace II (published here and elsewhere and accessible via archive.org) to anything in Wilson's No Quarter November rambles from 2018 through the present and see if you can prove there's neither a stylistic nor a thematic connection.  Back in his William Wallace II days Mark Driscoll explicitly named Wilson as an influence.  He backpedaled from Wilson's ideas about the Civil War in the member only Midrash circa 2002-2005 so it's understandable no one who wasn't a contracted/covenanted member of Mars Hill at the time could possibly have known that, but, if anything, Cosper's podcast merely alludes to a Wilsonian influence without, probably from constraints of time or people going on record (?) exploring that further.

After twenty years and having chronicled the history of Mars Hill for as long as I have the burden of proof on Wilson admirers is to disprove the connection Driscoll made a matter of public record if they want to differentiate between the two men, or to explain how and why Wilson doesn't have Driscoll's character flaws.

Having read one of the NQN books I'd venture to say that's going to be a difficult case to sustain so far.  To read Wilson sound off on "Smash the Matriarchy" and "Surplices Are for Sissises" is to be reminded that Driscoll wrote "Pussified Nation" drawing upon the ideas of others.