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Back to SearchBeowulf, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode XXIII
Episode 23
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Where is Geatland? Beowulf has been taken as a founding poem for England, yet England never appears in the poem. Linguist Colin Gorri…
4 years ago
Should Everyone Be Educated? | Episode 22
Episode 22
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Making humanistic education democratic and freely available was its downfall, at least in the eyes of Albert Jay Nock, as he discusse…
4 years ago
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force | Episode XXI
Episode 21
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“The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force,” wrote Simone Weil. And yet, she said that Homer’s poem is “the p…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Trivium According to Dorothy Sayers | Episode XX
Episode 20
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The Lost Tools of Learning, a 1947 lecture delivered at Oxford by Dorothy Sayers, was largely ignored at the time and in England unti…
4 years, 2 months ago
Don’t Read Too Much | Episode XIX
Episode 19
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In one of his many letters to his nephew Lucilius, the famous Stoic philosopher, playwright, and statesman, Seneca, advises his nephe…
4 years, 2 months ago
Oakeshott Teaches Us How (and What) to Think, feat. Dale Stenberg | Episode XVIII
Episode 18
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Should teachers teach their pupils what to think? Or how to think? The great English philosopher Michael Oakeshott says it’s not so s…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Original New Humanist, featuring Dr. Eric Adler and Katherine Bradshaw | Episode XVII
Episode 17
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Long before the New Humanists podcast was born, Irving Babbitt helped found the movement now known as New Humanism. University of Mar…
4 years, 3 months ago
T.S. Eliot’s Praise for Privilege | Episode XVI
Episode 16
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It is tempting to dismiss T.S. Eliot’s musings on class, society, and education as the complaints of a cranky reactionary. But the gr…
4 years, 4 months ago
Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XV
Episode 15
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Athanasius the Great, Athanasius contra mundum, the Hammer of the Arians. The great defender of orthodox Christology is no mere rigor…
4 years, 4 months ago
C.S. Lewis on Old Books | Episode XIV
Episode 14
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At the same time that he was delivering the Mere Christianity radio addresses to a war-torn England, C.S. Lewis penned a now-famous p…
4 years, 5 months ago