The New Thinkery
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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
Eric Buzzetti & Devin Stauffer on Christopher Bruell: Essays of Five Decades on Philosophy and Philosophers
Summer Break at The New Thinkery
Joshua Parens on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
Richard Polt on Heidegger' Origin of the Work of Art
Robert Wyllie on Alasdair MacIntyre
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Ray Bradbury's The Veldt
Michael McShane on Shakespeare's King Lear
Deacon Harrison Garlick on Gorgias, Part III
Bernard J. Dobski on Mark Twain's Recollections of Joan of Arc
Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments with Rob Wyllie & Matt Dinan
Eric Adler on Language Studies & "Decolonizing the Curriculum"
Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game
Patrick Callahan on Pindar
Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part III
Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part II
Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part I
Spencer Klavan on Epicureanism
Zena Hitz on Plato's Charmides
Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Strauss
Averroes and al-Ghazali
Devin Stauffer on Leo Strauss' Natural Right & History, Chapter 4
Christopher Nadon On Classical Education and Why Kids Can't Read Good No More
Steven Lenzner & Svetozar Minkov on Strauss' Debate with Jacob Klein
Steven Lenzner & Svetozar Minkov on the Intention of Rousseau
Panel: Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium, Part II
Adam Carrington on John Ford's Three Godfathers
Panel: Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium, Part I
Roosevelt Montás on the Virtues of a Liberal Education
Thomas Powers on the Civil Rights Movement
Samuel Stoner on Kant's Conjectural Beginnings and the Story of Genesis
Giovanni Ferrari on Plato the Writer
Damian Jungerman on Hannah Arendt's "Philosophy and Politics"
John Ford's The Sun Shines Bright
Charles Butterworth on Al-Farabi's Book of Letters
Patrick Deneen on Strauss' Three Waves of Modernity
An Overview of Homer's Odyssey
Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books
Sabrina Little on Athletics and Virtue
Leo Strauss' "On the Interpretation of Genesis"
Lincoln and the Founding
Eric Adler on Livy's History of Rome, Book I Ch. 1-16
Walter Sterling on T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
Pano Kanelos on Hamlet and the University of Austin
Robert Wyllie on Understanding Byung-Chul Han
Flagg Taylor on Jan Patočka's The Spiritual Person & the Intellectual
Michael Davis On Greek Tragedy, and Electra
Mary Nichols on Piety in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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