All Episodes

Episode 10: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: Anxiety, Modernism, and a Life Deferred — T. S. Eliot

Episode 9: Trilogy: Three Stories of One Love - Jon Fosse

Episode 8: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”: Questions Can Lead You Astray by Joyce Carol Oates

Episode 7: The Little Prince: Philosophy and Foxes - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Episode 6: Araby: by James Joyce

Episode 5: The Turn of the Screw: Horror Stories for Children – Henry James

Episode 4: Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderson: They’re not Just for Children

Episode 3: Barn Burning: Of Fire and Fathers - William Faulkner

Episode 2: Intimations of Immortality: Childhood’s Remembering

Episode 1: The Selection Show: Choosing the Great Stories for a Season on Life

Episode 24: Favorite Reads of 2025

Episode 23: What We Learned About Love

Episode 22: Waiting on God - Simone Weil: An Incandescent Life

Episode 21: Revelations of Divine Love: St. Julian's Mystical Sight

Episode 20: The Temple: The Architecture of the Soul — George Herbert

Episode 19: The Art and Music of Love: Theresa, Dido, and Shepherds

Episode 18: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections - Jonathan Edwards: Testing of Our Loves

Episode 17: The Confessions of St. Augustine: The Journey of Transformed Love

Episode 16: The Gospel of St. John - Cosmic Love

Episode 15: Anna Karenina: The Marriage Plot

Episode 14: The Making of a Great Marriage: Pride and Prejudice

Episode 13: Romeo and Juliet: The Wisdom of Young Love

Episode 12: The Divine Comedy: Disordered Eros

Episode 11: The Phaedras: Love is a Madness

Episode 10: The Wind in the Willows: A Classic Tale of Friendship

Episode 9: Huckleberry Finn: Can a Man and Child be Friends?

Episode 8: Cicero, On Friendship: Virtue–The Basis of Friendship

Episode 7: Epic of Gilgamesh: Superhuman Friendship

Episode 6: East of Eden, John Steinbeck: The American Epic

Episode 5: Sorry, Professor – Jo’s Heart Belonged to Laurie All Along

Episode 4: Beyond Sentimentality – The Odyssey’s Vision of Wholeness in a Disenchanted World

Episode 3: Antigone’s Stand: Love, Loyalty, and Loss

Episode 2: The Selection Show: Building the Love-Reading Season

Episode 1: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Types—and Limits—of Human Love

Episode 23: What We Learned About War: The Hard Truths of Battle

Episode 22: Modern Music & the Art of War: From Stravinsky to Picasso—20th Century’s Rule Change

Episode 21: Mein Kampf: The Blueprint for War & Genocide

Episode 20: All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque: The Anti-War Protest Novel

Episode 19: Killer Angels by Michael Shaara: The Last Humane War?

Episode 18: Joan of Arc: Don’t Send a Man to Do a Woman’s Job

Episode 17: On War by Clausewitz: The Years That War Changed

Episode 16: War and Peace: How to Defeat Napoleon? Do Nothing

Episode 15: Depicting War in Art and Music: Of Fallen Heroes and Epic Battles

Episode 14: Paradise Lost: The Cosmic Battle of Good and Evil

Episode 13: Henry V - Shakespeare: A Young Prince Delivers the Greatest Speech on War

Episode 12: Song of Roland/Pope Urban/Life of Charlemagne: Battles that Become Legends

Episode 11: Beowulf: Three Monsters and An Aging Hero

Episode 10: The City of God: A User’s Guide for the End of Civilization

Episode 9: Plutarch: Alcibiades and Coriolanus: Great Men to Love and Hate

Episode 8: The Art of War by Sun Tzu: Victory without Battle

Episode 7: Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Genocidal Maniac or Great Hero?

Episode 6: The Psychomachia: Was C.S. Lewis Wrong About Prudentius?

Episode 4: Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration: The Greatest Speech to Read

Introducing: Hot Takes on the Classics

Episode 1: The Iliad: The Opposite of War is Not Peace; It’s Liturgy

Episode 2: The Book of Judges: Where Are the Hittites?

Episode 3: Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: Not a Modern Historian, but a Participatory Chronicler

Episode 5: Virgil, The Aeneid: Can Peace Be Built on War?