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Spe Salvi Institute Podcast — 81 episodes
Looking back at 9/11 and Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Address
Liberalism and the Odyssey with Patrick J. Deneen
Why We Need Aesthetic Reinvigoration: Fen de Villiers
Markets, Corporations, and Political Economy with Mark Hoipkemier
The Odyssey: At home in the West?
America at 250: A Time for Hope
On Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
The American Idea: A Response to Justice Gorsuch
The Metaphysical Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski
Bishop Erik Varden: The Post-Secular West
Pope Benedict XVI on Revelation with Richard DeClue
Pope Leo XIV on the Value of Sport
Rage Against the AI Chatbot with Marc Barnes
The Political Philosophy of the European City with Ferenc Hörcher
Trinity in Aquinas: Psychological Analogy as Social Analogy with Michael J. Higgins
Are NATO and the West Obsolete?
My Dinner with Andre: The Greatest Film of Our Meaning-Starved Age
The Crisis of Authority with D.C. Schindler
Crisis of Young Men 2025: A Catholic Response to Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate & Fatherlessness
What is the Church? On Eucharistic Ecclesiology with Richard DeClue
On Pope Leo XIV’s first magisterial document, Dilexi Te, with Larry Chapp
The Disturbing Return of Antisemitism
Great Awakening vs. Great Awokening
On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk: A Turning Point for the West?
Cracks in Postmodernity with Stephen G. Adubato
Theology of the Family with Joseph C. Atkinson
Artificial Ignorance with Michael Hanby
City Baseball Magic with Philip Bess
Pope Leo XIV and Tech’s New Anti-human ‘Disruption’ with Charlie Camosy
A Vision for Europe: Exploring the Legacy of John Paul II and Robert Schuman
Pope Leo XIV: The First American Pope & Catholic Social Teaching in the Age of AI
Pope Francis: A Critical Appreciation with Nathan Pinkoski
"Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard" with Trevor Cribben Merrill and Sam Sorich
The Legacy of St. John Paul II: A 20-Year Retrospective
Henri de Lubac and the Legacy of Vatican II with Fr. Robert P. Imbelli
JD Vance’s Warning to Europe: The Threat From Within
Travels in Radical Christianity with Roy Peachey
Michel Houellebecq’s “Annihilation” with Joshua Hren and Trevor C. Merrill
Józef Tischner’s Philosophy of Drama with Artur Rosman
Theology of Work: Theology of the Body, Part II with D.C. Schindler
The Synod, the Election, & the Beauty of Rome with Larry Chapp
European Catholicism, Bl. Cardinal Wyszyński, and JP2’s Legacy in Poland with Filip Mazurczak
The Novel and the Real with Joshua Hren
Death and Eschatology with Andrew T.J. Kaethler
Secularism and Catholic higher education in America with Rodney Howsare
On Nationalism and the West with Nathan Pinkoski
Catholicism and the Crisis of Identity with John Milbank
Theology of the Body: A Deep Dive into John Paul II’s Teachings
A Defense of Christian Humanism with Tracey Rowland
The Theology of Pilgrimage with Fr. Piotr Roszak
Politics in France with François Valentin
Books for Our Times
Unlocking the Power of the Humanities: Enhancing Your Moral Imagination with Jared Zimmerer
Kathleen Carr: Why We Need to Revive Education in Great Art
Richard DeClue: The Mind of Benedict XVI
Philip Bess: Our Lady’s Plan of Chicago 2109 and Classical Humanist Urban Design
Kenneth Craycraft: Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America
Michael Diamant: New Traditional Architecture, Modernist Ugliness, Cathédral Notre-Dame de Paris
What We See in Europe
Nathan Douglas: Éric Rohmer, French New Wave, and the Love of Cinema
Zac Crippen: Screen Addiction, Dopamine Fasting, and Ted Gioia’s "State of the Culture, 2024"
William Newton: On Salvador Dalí and his ‘Christ’
Ewa Thompson: Polish History and Hope for the West
James Matthew Wilson: Plato, Poetry, and Place
Larry Chapp: The New World Struggling to be Born
Fr. Brian Graebe: The Goodness of Creation, the Break Fast Podcast, and New York, the Wonder City
Jennifer Newsome Martin: Charles Péguy on Hope, Mary, and Money
Michael Hanby: Technocratic Absolutism and Philosophical Vision
Alan Cornett: Cultural Debris, the Agrarian Tradition, and Modern Barbarism
Rodney Howsare: On Leisure, Festivity, and Work
The Vatican Film List and the Cinematic Arts
D.C. Schindler: Politics and Reality
Carl Olson: Will Catholics Be Left Behind: A Critique of the Rapture and Christian Eschatology
Konrad Milewski: America through European Eyes
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Why I am now a Christian” | Spe Salvi Institute Podcast
F. Flagg Taylor IV: Totalitarianism and The Lives of Others (2006)
Larry Chapp: Synod in the Shallows
Michał Łuczewski: Where is Poland headed?
Does Art Need the Church?
Why the Institute?