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Back to SearchTolkien, Philology, and the Great Books, feat. Colin Chan Redemer | Episode X
Episode 10
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At the end of his academic career at Oxford University, J.R.R. Tolkien gave his “Valedictory Address,” an analysis of the decline of …
4 years, 5 months ago
Antony and Cleopatra, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode IX
Episode 9
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Shakespeare’s Roman trilogy reaches a climax in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, a love- and wine-drenched account of Octavius Ca…
4 years, 6 months ago
Voegelin on Classics
Episode 8
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The hothouse of prewar Vienna played host to an unprecedented concentration of genius which eventually gave birth to modernism. Prese…
4 years, 6 months ago
Julius Caesar, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VII
Episode 7
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ALI Fellow Katherine Bradshaw returns to New Humanists, in installment number two of our discussion of Shakespeare's Roman plays. Thi…
4 years, 7 months ago
Coriolanus, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VI
Episode 6
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Did Shakespeare actually know anything about Ancient Rome? Or was he just writing Classical Fan-Fiction? ALI Greek & Latin Fellow Kat…
4 years, 7 months ago
Solzhenitsyn's Exhortations | Episode V
Episode 5
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is an unlikely candidate for “humanist,” especially because of his denunciation of humanism in his infamous Ha…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Art of Humane Education | Episode IV
Episode 4
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What is humane education? Are there techniques you can use to get students to appreciate the great books? Jonathan and Ryan discuss D…
4 years, 9 months ago
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord, Pt. 2 | Episode III
Episode 3
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Jonathan and Ryan continue their discussion of Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. …
4 years, 9 months ago
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord 2021, Pt. 1 | Episode II
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Jonathan and Ryan dive into Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. This book stars C.S…
4 years, 10 months ago
Humanist After All | Episode I
Episode 1
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This is the inaugural episode of New Humanists, the podcast of the Ancient Language Institute, found at ancientlanguage.com. ALI foun…
4 years, 10 months ago