All Episodes

How to Climb the Seven-Story Mountain by John Walbridge (Audio Essay)

To See the World for the First Time by Sophia Vasalou (Audio Essay)

Rumi and Shakespeare by Juan Cole (Audio Essay)

Can English Capture the Language of Revelation? (Audio Essay)

Music and the Decline of Civilization by Esme Partridge (Audio Essay)

Cultural Devolution by Hamza Yusuf (Audio Essay)

Muslims Are Not a Race (Audio Essay)

The Incoherence of Secular Messiahs (Audio Essay)

The Silent Theology of Islamic Art (Audio Essay)

Dignity Is for the Heart, Not the Ego (Audio Essay)

Can Materialism Explain the Mind? (Audio Essay)

The Human Arts of Graceful Giving and Grateful Receiving (Audio Essay)

Wisdom in Pieces (Audio Essay)

Pluralism in a Monoculture of Conformity by Hamza Yusuf (Audio Essay)

Pluralism in a Monoculture of Conformity- Hamza Yusuf (Audio Essay)

The Egalitarian Objection to Liberal Education

Transcendence and TikTok (Audio Essay)

Other People's Truths: Reading Sacred Scripture in Secular Settings (Audio Essay)

Resisting the Architecture of Apathy (Audio Essay)

What Pico Thought—and What It Wrought (Audio Essay)

The Sin of Cosmocide (Audio Essay)

What Islam Gave the Blues by Sylviane Diouf (Audio Essay)

Where Islam and Nationalism Collide by Zaid Shakir (Audio Essay)

Counting the Minutes: Productivity and the Well-Lived Day between Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī and Benjamin Franklin (Audio Essay)

Courteous Exchange in an Age of Empire by Sarah Barnette (Audio Essay)

What Walking Can Do For Our Souls (Audio Essay)

What is the Write Way to Read?

Who Gets to Define Islam? with Caner Dagli

The Limits of Aggression

The Trouble with Consciousness (Mark Delp and Esme Partridge)

We Are Not Our Brain (Muhammad Faruque and Esme Partridge)

The Ancient Roots of Transhumanist Thinking

"Is a Great Books Education for Everyone" with Thomas Hibbs

"The Knowledge that Transcends the Empirical World" with Hasan Spiker

"The Decline of Morality Amidst the Celebration of the Self" with Chris Hedges

Sculpting the Self with Muhammad U. Faruque and Esmé Partridge

What, Other Than God, Do We Worship?

Protection from Power with Mohammad Fadel and Lawrence Jannuzzi

What Is the Nature of Being Alone? (Stephen A. Gregg and Asad Tarsin)

Why Beauty Is Not Optional with Oludamini Oggunaike and Ubaydullah Evans

Graceful Giving and Grateful Receiving

Power to the People?

Cultivating the Life Skill of Writing

Are Believers a Political Tribe? (Asma T. Uddin and Caner K. Dagli)

Equality in the Ancient World with Juan Cole and Ubaydullah Evans

What Makes a Book "Great"? Fr. Francisco Nahoe and Sarah Barnette

From Fanaticism to Faith: Joram van Klaveren and Ubaydullah Evans

The Decline of Language and the Rise of Nothing: Hamza Yusuf and Thomas Hibbs

Philosophy without God (David Bentley Hart and Caner Dagli)

Why Are Muslims Seen as a Race? (Khalil Abdur-Rashid and Caner Dagli)

The Qur’an, the Prophet, and a Forgotten History - Juan Cole in conversation with Hamza Yusuf

Conversing with a National Treasure: Wisdom and Wit with Eva Brann

The Art and Artifice of Poetry (Scott Crider & Hamza Yusuf)

What Conservatism Really Means (Roger Scruton & Hamza Yusuf)

The Secret of the Morality Tale

What the Hadith Tradition Reveals About Religion in Academia

The Silent Theology of Islamic Art

Can Religion Be Studied Impartially? (Caner Dagli)

The Roots of Our Crises (Hamza Yusuf)