All episodes
Episode 90: Philo on the Riot in Alexandria, 38 A.D.
Episode 89: Trees
Episode 88: Are Covid Masks Here to Stay?
Episode 87: Against the Law
Episode 86: Lao Tzu | The Tao Te Ching
Episode 85: Confucius on The Rectification of Names
Episode 84: Horace | The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Episode 83: Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman"
Episode 82: Paul's Letter to the Romans
Episode 81: IDEALISM vs. DEMOCRACY
Episode 80: Institutional Religion and Supernatural Conversion
Episode 79: Psychiatry as a False Religion
Episode 78: Plato's Greater Hippias & the Odalisque Paintings
Episode 77: On Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor
Episode 76: Justin Martyr's Dialog with Trypho
Episode 75: Mystical Philosophy in the Third Age of the Buddha (after Heidegger)
Episode 74: Michel de Montaigne's Essays
Episode 73: Emil Cioran, Poet-Philosopher
Episode 72: On Plutarch's Lycurgus
Episode 71: Night-Sea Journey, by John Barth
Episode 70.4: Blithedale, Concluded
Episode 70.3: Blithedale Seminar, cont'd
Episode 70.2: Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance" (part 2)
Episode 70: Utopia & the Passions in Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance"
Episode 69: Suffering, Wisdom, & Buddha's Diamond Sutra
Episode 68: The Dark Lady & The Red Pill in Herman Melville's "Pierre"
Episode 67: Intro to Walt Whitman's Thinking & Writing
Episode 66: Zarathustra is a Liberal
Episode 65: Reactionary Self-Culture in Huysmans' "Against Nature"
Episode 64: The Moral Teaching of Shakespeare's King Lear
Episode 63: Kafka, Work, and the Bug Man
Episode 62: Human Thinking Before Language -- Cormac McCarthy
Episode 61: Eusebius on Early Christian History
Episode 60: Milton on Sin and Human Nature
Episode 59: Toward a Standard Model of the Interpretation of Heroic Virtues in Western/Christian Literature
Episode 58: Flannery O'Connor on Christianity and Violence
Episode 57: Meister Eckhart on How to Become God (!)
Episode 56: Borges on Memory and the Imagination
Episode 55: The American Critique of Capitalism in Melville's "Bartleby"
Episode 54: Lyricism & Analogical Thinking
Episode 53: Euripides: The Bacchae & the God Dionysus
Episode 52: Plato's Gorgias: A Study in Charlatanism
Episode 51: Plotinus on the Intellectual-Principle, Beauty, and The One
Episode 50: Harry and Meghan after Reading Antigone
Episode 49: Jonathan Edwards: A Divine and Supernatural Light
Episode 48: Gnosticism in the Gospel of Philip
Episode 47: Herodotus on Ancient Cultural Diversity
Episode 46: On Pascal's Aphoristic Thought
Episode 45: Sallust on the Moral Ruin of the Roman Republic
Episode 44: Boethius on Truth and Consequences
Episode 43: Suetonius on Roman Depravity
Episode 42: Polybius on War Elephants... and Greek Cooperation
Episode 41: Albert Camus on Rebellion and the Threat of Totality
Episode 40: Aeschylus on How to Avoid a Civil War
Episode 39: Victor Hugo on Architecture and the Printing Press
Episode 38: Nostalgia for Old America
Episode 37: Edgar Allan Poe on Sin and Perverseness
Episode 36: Victor Pelevin on Manipulated Elections and Holographic Politicians
Episode 35: Jonah and the Great Fish
Episode 34: Henry David Thoreau on Capitalism and the Need for Civil Disobedience
Episode 33: Nathaniel Hawthorne on the Masks We Wear: The Minister's Black Veil
Episode 32: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature and the Soul
Episode 31: Stoicism & Logos
Episode 30: Dante on Bitcoin, Usury... and other Unspeakable Sins
Episode 29: Psychological Realism in Dante's Inferno
Episode 28: Parmenides: the One after Heraclitus
Episode 27: What was Philosophy? Heraclitus and the Presocratics
Episode 26: William James on Conversion and Mysticism
Episode 25: Social Status and Psychology in Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"
Episode 24: Dostoevsky, Contrarianism, and the Threat of Utopian Scientism
Episode 23: The Remnant of Monologic Thought in Homer's Odyssey
Episode 22: Authority and Mysticism in Derrida, The Holy Bible, and Moby-Dick
Episode 21: Moby-Dick, Cosmopolitanism, and American Whiteness
Episode 20: Moby-Dick, Moral Seriousness, and The Blackness of Darkness
Episode 19: Thanksgiving and the Challenge of Nonconformism
Episode 18: Melville, Moby-Dick, and Modernism
Episode 17: The State of the Podcast & Apologizing for Loud Background Music
Episode 16.1: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"
Episode 15: Josephus on War, Identity, and God's Favor
Episode 14: The Gospel of John and Process of Mythologization
Episode 13: Ovid, Mythology, and the Anunnaki
Episode 12: The Iliad -- Analogy as Higher Thinking
Episode 11: The Upanishads, Parmenides, and Oneness
Episode 10: The Bhagavad Gita: Why We Fight
Episode 9: Venerable Bede on the Enchanted Worldview
Episode 8: Plato as a Utopian Communist?
Episode 7: Plato's Cave in the Age of Mandatory Cave-ism
Episode 6: Plato on the Forms (Bk 6, Republic)
Episode 5: Plato on Being Good & Seeming Good
Episode 4: Tacitus: On Late Empire
Episode 3: Gilgamesh: Alt-Genesis
Episode 2: Thucydides on Nature & War
Episode 1: Before-Woke Joe Biden & the Confucian Way