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The New Thinkery is a society podcast hosted by The New Thinkery. It has 264 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

The New Thinkery is a podcast devoted to political philosophy and its history, along with its many guises in literature, film, and human experience generally. Named after Socrates' infamous "Thinkery" in Aristophanes' Clouds, The New Thinkery strikes a balance between the seriousness of academia and the playfulness of casual conversation among friends.

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Panel: David Bolotin's On Plato's Republic: The 1988 Lecture Notes

2

Eric Buzzetti & Devin Stauffer on Christopher Bruell: Essays of Five Decades on Philosophy and Philosophers

3

Summer Break at The New Thinkery

4

Joshua Parens on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed

5

Richard Polt on Heidegger' Origin of the Work of Art

6

Robert Wyllie on Alasdair MacIntyre

7

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

8

Ray Bradbury's The Veldt

9

Michael McShane on Shakespeare's King Lear

10

Deacon Harrison Garlick on Gorgias, Part III

11

Bernard J. Dobski on Mark Twain's Recollections of Joan of Arc

12

Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God

13

Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments with Rob Wyllie & Matt Dinan

14

Eric Adler on Language Studies & "Decolonizing the Curriculum"

15

Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game

16

Patrick Callahan on Pindar

17

Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part III

18

Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part II

19

Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part I

20

Spencer Klavan on Epicureanism

21

Zena Hitz on Plato's Charmides

22

Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Strauss

23

Averroes and al-Ghazali

24

Devin Stauffer on Leo Strauss' Natural Right & History, Chapter 4

25

Christopher Nadon On Classical Education and Why Kids Can't Read Good No More

26

Steven Lenzner & Svetozar Minkov on Strauss' Debate with Jacob Klein

27

Steven Lenzner & Svetozar Minkov on the Intention of Rousseau

28

Panel: Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium, Part II

29

Adam Carrington on John Ford's Three Godfathers

30

Panel: Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium, Part I

31

Roosevelt Montás on the Virtues of a Liberal Education

32

Thomas Powers on the Civil Rights Movement

33

Samuel Stoner on Kant's Conjectural Beginnings and the Story of Genesis

34

Giovanni Ferrari on Plato the Writer

35

Damian Jungerman on Hannah Arendt's "Philosophy and Politics"

36

John Ford's The Sun Shines Bright

37

Charles Butterworth on Al-Farabi's Book of Letters

38

Patrick Deneen on Strauss' Three Waves of Modernity

39

An Overview of Homer's Odyssey

40

Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books

41

Sabrina Little on Athletics and Virtue

42

Leo Strauss' "On the Interpretation of Genesis"

43

Lincoln and the Founding

44

Eric Adler on Livy's History of Rome, Book I Ch. 1-16

45

Walter Sterling on T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"

46

Pano Kanelos on Hamlet and the University of Austin

47

Robert Wyllie on Understanding Byung-Chul Han

48

Flagg Taylor on Jan Patočka's The Spiritual Person & the Intellectual

49

Michael Davis On Greek Tragedy, and Electra

50

Mary Nichols on Piety in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

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