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Back to SearchEnter the Indo-Europeans, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIII
Episode 103
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Supposedly, about half of the world population speaks languages that all come from one root language: Proto-Indo-European. How do we …
5 months ago
The Sophists Are the Founders of Classical Education | Episode CII
Episode 102
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The classical education revival movement began in the 1980s as a DIY, grassroots attempt to recover the medieval liberal arts, most n…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Big Bad Leo Strauss, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CI
Episode 101
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What is liberal education? It's the prompt that has launched one thousand essays, and in a 1959 lecture at the University of Chicago,…
6 months ago
Time Present, Time Past, Time Future | Episode C
Episode 100
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In celebration of the 100th episode of New Humanists, we do an extended episode that is a retrospective, discussing the history of th…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Socrates Had It Coming | Episode XCIX
Episode 99
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Socrates taught his students contempt for the gods, how to defraud creditors, and useless trivialities about flea-jumping. Or at leas…
7 months ago
Do "Christian" and "Classical" Go Together? feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XCVIII
Episode 98
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In the 4th century AD, two Christian friends - Basil and Gregory - travelled from Cappadocia to Athens to go study Greek literature w…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Jocks Versus Nerds | Episode XCVII
Episode 97
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We tend to think of the Athenians as philosophers, architects, and mathematicians. But their highest devotion was rather to sports an…
8 months ago
That Other Dorothy Sayers Lecture | Episode XCVI
Episode 96
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Everyone knows "The Lost Tools of Learning." But did you know Dorothy Sayers delivered another, longer, and even more interesting lec…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Ahh, the Greeks! | Episode XCV
Episode 95
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"Παιδεία found its realization in παιδεραστία." This is how Henri-Irénée Marrou characterizes the relationship between paideia and pe…
9 months ago
Is Christianity Kitsch? | Episode XCIV
Episode 94
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What if we find Norse myth or Greco-Roman myth more aesthetically pleasing than Christianity? Should we believe in the pagan gods ins…
9 months, 2 weeks ago