All Episodes

Episode 78: Law and Literature with Donald Kochan

Episode 77: Rooney's "Beautiful World Where Are You?" with Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg

Episode 76: James's "The Portrait of a Lady" with Merve Emre

Episode 75: Ghali's "Beer in the Snooker Club" with Phil Klay

Episode 74: Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" with John Marenbon

Episode 73: St. Bonaventure's "Journey of the Mind into God" with Carlos Eire

Episode 72: The 'Sacred' and the 'Profane' with Michael Foley

Episode 71: Dana Gioia on the Tragic Thought of Seneca

Episode 70: The Poetry of John Donne w/ Lars Engle

Episode 69: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" w/ Aaron Gwyn

Episode 68: The Poetry of Jonathan Swift with Steve Karian

Episode 67: Poetry, Art, and Truth with Carl Phillips

Episode 66: Ovid's "The Art of Love" with Julia Hejduk

Episode 65: Boris Dralyuk on Nabokov's Pnin

Episode 64: Patrick Deneen on DeLillo's White Noise

The Podcast Returns!

Re-run: Episode 43 - The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson

Re-run: Episode 50 - "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon

Re-run: Episode 45 - Roosevelt Montás on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation

Re-run: Episode 41 - James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West

Re-run: Episode 1 - Redemptive Love and Comic Mercy in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Re-run: Episode 55 - Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics

Re-run: Episode 56 - Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil

Re-run: Episode 48 - Crime and Punishment with Thomas Hibbs

Re-run: Episode 51 - A Canticle for Leibowitz with Christopher Frey

Sacred and Profane Love Summer Update

Episode 63: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part III

Episode 62: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part II

Episode 61: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part I

Episode 60: Randy Boyagoda on Original Prin and Dante's Indiana

Episode 59: TS Eliot with Anthony Domestico

Episode 58: Justin E.H. Smith on Edgar Allan Poe

Episode 57: JM Coetzee on Philosophy, Fiction, and the Academy

Episode 56: Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil

Episode 55: Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics

Episode 54: Karen Swallow Prior on The Scarlet Letter

Episode 53: Paul Mariani on Robert Lowell

Episode 52: The Hillbilly Thomists

Episode 51: A Canticle for Leibowitz with Christopher Frey

Episode 50: "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon

Episode 49: Christopher Beha on Lucky Per

Episode 48: Crime and Punishment with Thomas Hibbs

Episode 47: Justin E.H. Smith on Suttree

Episode 46: Katy Carl

Episode 45: Roosevelt Montas on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation

Episode 44: The Tragic Abyss with Dr. Kevin Kambo

Episode 43: The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson

Episode 42: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter

Episode 41: James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West

Episode 40: The Tragic Vision of Eugene O'Neill

Episode 39: Gabriel Marcel's Thirst

Episode 38: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Bonus Episode: Matthew Mehan on Children's Literature

Episode 37: Boethius and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces

Episode 36: The Realist Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz

Episode 35: Morten Hoi Jensen on Jens Peter Jacobsen

Episode 34: Dante's Paradiso

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 33: Dante's Purgatorio

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 32: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 31: The Hellish Desires of Dante's Inferno

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 30: The Seducer, Self-Creation and The Aesthete

Episode 29: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice with Agnes Mueller

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 28: Agnes Callard on Antigone

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 27: Karen Swallow Prior on Reading Joseph Conrad Well

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 26: St. Augustine and the Index of Self-Destructive Acts

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 25: On Solitude with Rilke and Merton

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 24: On Reading The Plague in a Plague

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 23: Lost in Thought with Zena Hitz

Episode 22: Huxley on Love and Longing in the Dystopia

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 21: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 20: Scruton's Wagner: Sex, Death, and the Sacred

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 19: Love and Lust in Lolita

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 18: Carrying the Flame

Episode 17: The Death of a Whisky Priest

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 16: King Lear's Vision

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 15 : Faustian Ambitions

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 14: Walker Percy on Being Lost in the Cosmos

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 13: Jane Austen on the Virtues of Social Life

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 12: Meaning, Murder, and Divine Madness

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 11: The Contemplative Realism of Marilynne Robinson

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 10: A Twitch Upon The Thread

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 9: Revelations of Love in John Steinbeck

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 8: Sophocles and Tragic Love

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 7: Boasts of Love in Troilus and Criseyde

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 6: Elena Ferrante on Friendship and the Intellectual Life

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 5: Eros and Ecstasy

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 4: Fantasy, Romance, and Self-destruction in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 3: Walt Whitman on Hope and National Character

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 2: Transfiguring Love in the Brothers Karamazov

Sacred and Profane Love Episode 1: Redemptive Love and Comic Mercy in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor