Award-Winning Journalist, David Cayley, on the Revolutionary Priest & Cultural Critic, Ivan Illich

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CWCIT’s Bill Cavanaugh talks to David Cayley about Ivan Illich, the brilliant, idiosyncratic, and revolutionary Catholic priest and cultural critic. Cayley is an award-winning journalist and author who became good friends with Illich and has written several important books with and about him. In this interview, David and Bill concentrate on Illich's critique of the Western medical establishment and the way we have been alienated from our own bodies. They also discuss what Illich would have thought about our reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.