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Season 12 Episode 7
What differentiates America from France? Is it our value of life and stability in our Revolution, or is it a distinction between the bourgeois of Ame…
5 months, 1 week ago
S12 E6: The German Connection
Season 12 Episode 6
Where does modern American nihilism stem from? According to Allan Bloom, ultimately from Nietzsche! Join us as we discuss the impact of German thinki…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
S12 E5: Relationships, Part 2 - Separateness, Divorce, Love, and Eros
Season 12 Episode 5
Why has modern society failed to recognize the purpose of marriage? Or, for that matter, the purpose of love, life, and relationships as a whole? Fin…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
S12 E4: Relationships, Part 1 - Self-Centeredness, Equality, Race, and Sex
Season 12 Episode 4
Does American society support the same kinds of relationships that it did in generations past? Find out in this episode, as we continue discussing Sa…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
S12 E3: Books and Music
Season 12 Episode 3
Do young people even read anymore? What's up with their obsession with music? Such questions are not as boring as they sound, as Allan Bloom describe…
6 months, 1 week ago
S12 E2: The Clean Slate
Season 12 Episode 2
Do Americans have a national book? What is America's defining ideology? Is it structured by the Constitution and the Bible, or something else entirel…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
S12 E1: Foreword, Preface, and Introduction to "The Closing of the American Mind"
Season 12 Episode 1
What is the purpose of education? What is the truth? What is man? Find out in this season of Unlimited Opinions, as we read Allan Bloom's The Closing…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
S11 E8: Season Finale: J.R.R. Tolkien - Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford
Season 11 Episode 8
Join us as for the finale of Season 11, as we discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, given in 1959 as he retired f…
7 months, 1 week ago
S11 E7: J.R.R. Tolkien - A Secret Vice
Season 11 Episode 7
How weird is it to make your own language? Find out as we discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's "A Secret Vice", in which he describes his own evolution in making…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
S11 E6: J.R.R. Tolkien - English and Welsh
Season 11 Episode 6
"I was born in the wrong language!" now ranks among perhaps one of the oddest phrases said during an active tornado warning. Join us as we discuss J.…
7 months, 3 weeks ago