Podcast Episodes

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail (Stephen Taylor)

Episode 337

An interesting study of the life of seamen in the age of sail, and of why Churchill was partially wrong about "rum, sodomy, and the lash."

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Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

John Chrysostom on the Roman Empire: A Study on the Political Thought of the Early Church (Constantine Bozinis)

Episode 336

Of empire, democracy, and mixed government, through the prism of one of the greatest Fathers of the Church.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/05/22…

Published on 7 months ago

Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 (Richard Mowbray Haywood)

Episode 335

An exhaustive study of the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway, written by my father.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/04/11/russia-…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Jim Rasenberger)

Episode 334

Of Sam Colt, who made all men equal, yet found little happiness, it seems, in doing so.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/03/31/revolver-sam-colt-a…

Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (Jonathan Phillips)

Episode 333

A competent history of the Kurdish warlord Saladin, and his battles against Christians in the Holy Land. And of modern distorted and false views of his works.

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Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)

Episode 332

Christopher Lasch's famous exposition of the false claims of progress, and of what the alternatives are to an unthinking slavish devotion to "progress." A book that was before its time in 1991, but t…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

The Ancient City (Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges)

Episode 331

A classic work about religion, law, and governance in pre-history, and how those structures formed the Greece and Rome we know.

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Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Against Gross Domestic Product

Episode 330

Why the golden calf of Gross Domestic Product should be rejected as a measure of America's flourishing.

The written version of this review was first published in The American Mind, and can be found h…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief (Ronald Hutton)

Episode 329

The second volume in Ronald Hutton's trilogy biography of Oliver Cromwell.  And of how England could sure use a new Cromwell as of this moment.

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Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol (Carl Schmitt)

Episode 328

Of the life and death of the Leviathan state of Thomas Hobbes, and much else besides, as always with Carl Schmitt, including how the end of that state led to the administrative/managerial state and t…

Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago