All Episodes

Episode 62: John Johnson on Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Theology, and Freedom

"It is Good that You Are" The Human Person in the Age of AI and The Digital Revolution

Episode 61: Magatte Wade on Rethinking Poverty, Prosperity, and What Africa needs to Flourish

Episode 60: Augustine Wetta, O.S.B. St. Benedict's 12-Step Guide to Genuine Self-Esteem

Episode 59: Catherine Pakaluk, Ph.D - A Life Marathon: On having a large family in a consumerist culture amidst declining marriage and birth rates

Ep. 58 William Easterly Ph.D. : Poverty, Technocracy, and the Tyranny of Experts

Ep.57 The Decline of Christianity, the Rise of the “Nones” and Philosophies of the Person that Shape Unbelief

Ep.56 Ambassador Eduard Habsburg: Building a Family Legacy — The Habsburg Way: 7 Tools for Turbulent Times

Ep.55 Seth Kapan on Fragile Neighborhoods — Relationships and Place-Based Solutions to Social and Material Poverty

Ep.54 Cajetan Cuddy O.P on The Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas

Vigen Guroian: Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination

Ep. 52 Philip Ovadia MD Metabolic Health, Diet, Cholesterol, Heart Disease, and Modern Medicine

Ep. 51 Titus Techera: Dune and Bladerunner Science Fiction, Dystopia and Humanity in American Life

Ep.50 On Benedict XVI -Reason, Freedom, Beauty, and the Intellectual Sources of Secularism and the New Evangelization

Ep. 49 Flagg Taylor, Ph.D: The Parallel Polis

Ep. 48 Jonathan Bi: Rene Girard - Social Pressure, True and False Desires, Sacrifice, and Belief

Ep. 47 Rachel Ferguson, Ph.D: Exclusion & Opportunity - Black Liberation Through the Marketplace

Ep. 46 Bill Rivers: Last Summer Boys A Novel about Family, Honor, and the Power of Community

Ep. 45 Paul McLaughlin PsyD, Mark R. McMinn PhD: Can Wisdom be Cultivated?

Ep. 44 Deion Kathawa: Technology, Religion, and Humanity in a Post-Human Age

Ep. 43: Orthodox Judaism, Leo Strauss, and Baruch Spinoza’s Critique of Religion

Ep. 42: Jeremy Tate: Whoever Owns the Test Owns the Curriculum: Classic Learning v. Industrial Model

Podcast Episode 41: Michael Ward: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man

Podcast Ep. 40 Mary Eberstadt: Who are You? Family, Politics, and the Hunger for Identity

Ep. 39 Marcel Guarnizo: What is Justice

Ep. 38: Dr. Margarita Mooney Nicaraguan Journey: From Technocracy to Solidarity through Small Acts of Love

Ep. 37: James Poulos: Digital Politics & Spiritual War

Ep. 36: Carter Snead: Law, Power, and Bioethics: What it Means to Be Human,

Ep. 35: Jessica Hooten Wilson, Ph.D.: Literature and Totalitarianism

Ep. 34: Heidi White: What is Classical Education?

Ep. 33: Elizabeth Corey, Ph.D.: Life Beyond Politics

Ep. 32: James Madden, Ph.D.: The Recovery of the Self: Embodied and Embedded Persons

Ep. 31: Titus Techera and Flagg Taylor: Communism and Film: Deceit, Privacy, Art, and the Effects of Tyranny on the Soul

Ep. 30: Jay Richards: Fasting, Prayer, and Ketosis: How Modern Science and Ancient Christian Tradition Support a Fasting Lifestyle & Help Us Put Food in its Proper Place

Ep. 29: Noelle Mering: Awake Not Woke: A Personalist Alternative to Thinking About Social Justice

Ep. 28: George Gilder: Crypto vs Google: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Computing, and Life After Google and Big Data

Ep. 27: Decentralization, Localism, and Mutual Aid: The Thought of Robert Nisbet

Ep. 26: David Deavel Ph.D: What Happiness are We Pursuing? Solzhenitsyn and American Culture

Ep. 25: David Clayton: Beauty and the Cosmos

Ep. 24: Andreas Widmer: Principled Entrepreneurship: Why Business is Always Personal

Ep. 23: Flagg Taylor Ph.D: Living in Truth: Vaclav Havel on Existential Dissent & the Re-discovery of Conscience

Ep. 22: Luke Sheahan: Suppressing Dissent: Why Freedom of Association and Decentralization Matter for Liberty, Community, Innovation, and Human Flourishing

Ep. 21: Luke Burgis: The Economy of Desire: Rene Girard on Commerce and our Everyday Life

Ep. 20: What is the Moral Imagination? + 15 Ways to Build it and Recover Our Humanity

Ep. 19: Carrie Gress, Ph.D: Theology of Home: Family, Motherhood and the Alternative to Dominant Feminism

Ep. 18: Chris Arnade: Dignity, Poverty, Faith, & Seeking Respect in Back Row America

Ep. 17: Obianuju Ekeocha: Ideological Colonialism and Resisting the Cultural Annexation of Africa

Ep. 16: Dr. Michael Egnor: Does Neuroscience Refute Free Will?

Ep. 15: Gary Saul Morson Ph.D: Thinking Like Lenin

The Triumph of the Yuppie: Carlo Lancellotti on Augusto del Noce, Secularization, Revolution, and the Crisis of Modernity

Ep. 13: Dr. Michael Egnor, M.D: Are We our Brains? Philosophy and the Foundations of Neuroscience

Ep. 12: Jaron Lanier: Behavior Modification, Virtual Reality, and Re-inventing the Internet

Ep. 11: Bradley Birzer, Ph.D: Leviathan Inc.: Robert Nisbet, Decentralization, & Localism

Ep. 10: Diana Rodgers: Kale vs Cow: Nutrition, Land Regeneration, and the Case for Better Meat

Ep. 9: Anthony Bradley, Ph.D: Personalism as a Response to Over-Criminalization and Mass Incarceration

Ep. 8: Glen Weyl, Ph.D: Alternatives to Technocracy & the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence

Ep. 7: Joel Salatin: Simple Truths About Man, Nature, Stewardship, & Farming

Ep. 6: Dr. Patrick Lee: What Does it Really Mean to be a Human Being?

Ep. 5: Jay Richards, Ph.D: Philosophical Materialism

Ep. 4: Dr. Gregory Thornbury: Rene Girard and the Mimetic Cycle

Ep. 3: Jay Richards Ph.D: The Future of Work in an Age of Smart Machines

Ep. 2: Dan Mahoney: Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag Archipelago Dan Mahoney

Ep. 1: James Otteson Ph.D: Aristotle and the Good Life