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The New Thinkery — 264 episodes
Panel: David Bolotin's On Plato's Republic: The 1988 Lecture Notes
Eric Buzzetti & Devin Stauffer on Christopher Bruell: Essays of Five Decades on Philosophy and Philosophers
Summer Break at The New Thinkery
Joshua Parens on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
Richard Polt on Heidegger' Origin of the Work of Art
Robert Wyllie on Alasdair MacIntyre
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Ray Bradbury's The Veldt
Michael McShane on Shakespeare's King Lear
Deacon Harrison Garlick on Gorgias, Part III
Bernard J. Dobski on Mark Twain's Recollections of Joan of Arc
Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments with Rob Wyllie & Matt Dinan
Eric Adler on Language Studies & "Decolonizing the Curriculum"
Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game
Patrick Callahan on Pindar
Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part III
Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part II
Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part I
Spencer Klavan on Epicureanism
Zena Hitz on Plato's Charmides
Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Strauss
Averroes and al-Ghazali
Devin Stauffer on Leo Strauss' Natural Right & History, Chapter 4
Christopher Nadon On Classical Education and Why Kids Can't Read Good No More
Steven Lenzner & Svetozar Minkov on Strauss' Debate with Jacob Klein
Steven Lenzner & Svetozar Minkov on the Intention of Rousseau
Panel: Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium, Part II
Adam Carrington on John Ford's Three Godfathers
Panel: Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium, Part I
Roosevelt Montás on the Virtues of a Liberal Education
Thomas Powers on the Civil Rights Movement
Samuel Stoner on Kant's Conjectural Beginnings and the Story of Genesis
Giovanni Ferrari on Plato the Writer
Damian Jungerman on Hannah Arendt's "Philosophy and Politics"
John Ford's The Sun Shines Bright
Charles Butterworth on Al-Farabi's Book of Letters
Patrick Deneen on Strauss' Three Waves of Modernity
An Overview of Homer's Odyssey
Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books
Sabrina Little on Athletics and Virtue
Leo Strauss' "On the Interpretation of Genesis"
Lincoln and the Founding
Eric Adler on Livy's History of Rome, Book I Ch. 1-16
Walter Sterling on T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
Pano Kanelos on Hamlet and the University of Austin
Robert Wyllie on Understanding Byung-Chul Han
Flagg Taylor on Jan Patočka's The Spiritual Person & the Intellectual
Michael Davis On Greek Tragedy, and Electra
Mary Nichols on Piety in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Plato's Lovers
Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American Scholar
CDC Reeve on Aristotle's Dialectic
Paul Carrese on George Washington
On Fitness
Ariel Helfer on Plato's Letters
Leo Strauss' What Is Political Philosophy?, Part III
Leo Strauss' What is Political Philosophy?, Part II
Leo Strauss' What is Political Philosophy?, Part I
The New Thinkery at 200
Marc Landy on America and Modernity
Dustin Peone on Comedy and Philosophy
Christopher Lynch on Machiavelli on War
W. B. Allen on Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
Plato's Hipparchus
Laurence Berns on Francis Bacon with Martin Yaffe and Nathan Dinneen
Raúl Rodríguez on Strauss' View of Tocqueville and Nietzsche
Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act V
Christopher Kelly on Rousseau's Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques, Part II
Christopher Kelly on Rousseau's Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques, Part I
Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped ft. Tom Cleveland & James Guess
Douglas Kries on Augustine City of God
Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV
Devin Stauffer on Leo Strauss' Natural Right & History, Chapter 5, Part 1 on Hobbes
Kaishuo Chen on Confucius and Esotericism
Xenophon's Apology
Roundtable Discussion of Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History
Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III
Ronna Burger on Moses as Lawgiver and Founder
Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, Chapter 3
Peter J. Ahrensdorf on Homer
Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Eric Adler on the New Humanism
Tim Burns on Leo Strauss, Part II
Tim Burns on Leo Strauss, Part I
On Gratitude
Kafka's In the Penal Colony
Musings on Plato's Symposium Panel
Fritz Lang's M
Stripes & Coriolanus with B.J. Dobski
Hesiod's "Works and Days," Part I
Hannah Arendt's "Ideology and Terror" ft. Damian Jungerman
Nasser Behnegar on Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, Chapter 2
Shilo Brooks on Nietzsche's "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life"
Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II
Alex Priou's Musings on Plato's Symposium
Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act I
Jacob Howland on the Crisis of Higher Education and the University of Austin
Ray Bradbury's The Veldt
Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology
Steven Hayward on David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas"
An Overview of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic
E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops
Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor
The Declaration of Independence
Strauss on Euthyphro, Part II with Dr. Hannes Kerber & Dr. Svetozar Minkov
Strauss on Euthyphro, Part I with Dr. Hannes Kerber & Dr. Svetozar Minkov
Aristotle on Moral Responsibility (Nicomachean Ethics Book III.1–5)
Eric Adler on The Big Lebowski
Ortega y Gasset on Art with Daniel McDonald
Charlie Thomas on Plato's Female Drama
Eric Adler on Tacitus' Germania
Thomas Cleveland on Aristotle's Metaphysics A 1–2
Socrates as Family Man
Spencer Klavan on Euripides' The Bacchae
The Introduction to Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind
Nietzsche on the Last Man
Xenophon on Hunting with Dogs
Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, Chapter 1
Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion
Jacob Klein's The Problem of Freedom
Machiavelli's The Prince, Chapter 7
Interview: Spencer Klavan on Diogenes Laërtius' The Life of Zeno
Interview: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert on Lincoln's Views of Discoveries and Inventions
Valentine's Day Love Poems
Winston Churchill's Painting as a Pastime
Aristotle's Politics 3.4
Interview: Dr. Eric Adler on Plutarch's Life of Camillus
Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
Interview: Samuel Stoner on Kant's What is Enlightenment?
Interview: Dr. Bernard J. Dobski on Plutarch's Life of Themistocles
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Interview: Dr. John Moser on It's a Wonderful Life
John Locke on Property
Interview: Dr. Waseem El-Rayes on Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah
Interview: Lorraine Pangle on Aristotle & Natural Right
Aristotle's Great Souled Man
Democracy in America, Volume 2
Interview: Dr. Gary Schmitt on High Noon
Interview: Charles Butterworth on Al-Razi's Book of the Philosophic Life
Happy Halloween from The New Thinkery!
Edgar Allen Poe's Most Famous Works
Rousseau on Heroic Virtue
Interview: Professor Devin Stauffer on Hobbes' View of Human Nature
Strauss' Natural Right and History, Part 1
Interview: Tom Cleveland on Aristotle and Prophecy
Interview: BJ Dobski on Thucydides' Archaeology
Interview: Fereshteh Priou on Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way
Interview: Damian Jungerman on the Value of Great Books
Herbert Storing's Liberal Education and the Common Man
Interview: Jerry Weinberger on Ben Franklin's Autobiography
Plato's Republic Book IV Through 429b
Interview: Professor Adam Carrington on Fort Apache
Leo Strauss' Crisis of Our Time
Interview: Eric Adler on Plutarch's Life of Romulus
Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby
Xenophon's Hiero
Michael Anton on Montesquieu
George Anastaplo on Television
Interview: Dr. Paul Diduch on Technological Moderation
Aristotle on Friendship ft. Producer Jake
Plutarch's Life of Theseus
Nietzsche on Truth and Lies
Aristotle on Slavery
Interview: Joshua Parens on Leo Strauss on Natural Law
Winchester 73 | The New Thinkery Ep. 95
The Noble Lie | The New Thinkery Ep. 94
Interview: Steve Hayward on Weber's Politics as a Vocation
Homer's Iliad, Books 1 and 2 | The New Thinkery Ep. 92
Interview: Dr. Catherine Zuckert on Augustine's Confessions | The New Thinkery Ep. 91
Interview: Dr. Lee Ward on Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost | The New Thinkery Ep. 90
Interview: Dr. David Lowenthal on Orwell's 1984
Grab Bag | The New Thinkery Ep. 88
Interview: Professor James Carey on Indian Philosophy | The New Thinkery Ep. 87
Plato's Republic and the Problem of Justice | The New Thinkery Ep. 86
Hitchcock's Rope | The New Thinkery Ep. 85
Interview: Diana Schaub on Lincoln's Lyceum Address | The New Thinkery Ep. 84
Interview: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert on Lincoln's Statecraft | The New Thinkery Ep. 83
Machiavelli's Four Most Excellent Princes | The New Thinkery Ep. 82
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | The New Thinkery Ep. 81
Anna Schmidt on Maimonides' Letter on Astrology | The New Thinkery Ep. 80
Aristotle's Politics, 1.1-2 | The New Thinkery Ep. 79
Leo Strauss on German Nihilism | The New Thinkery Ep. 78
Plato's Republic, Book I | The New Thinkery Ep. 77
Interview: Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli's Mandragola | The New Thinkery Ep. 76
Hawthorne's The Christmas Banquet | The New Thinkery Ep. 75
Dickens' A Christmas Carol | The New Thinkery Ep. 74
Interview: Professor Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Nazism | The New Thinkery Ep. 73
Interview: Dr. Christopher Burkett on Westerns | The New Thinkery Ep. 72
Descartes' Discourse on Method | The New Thinkery Ep. 71
Interview: Glenn Ellmers on The Soul of Politics | The New Thinkery Ep. 70
Interview: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert on the Gettysburg Address | The New Thinkery Ep. 69
Interview: Dr. Eric Adler on Battle of the Classics | The New Thinkery Ep. 68
Introduction to Plato's Republic | The New Thinkery Ep. 67
Interview: Dr. Justin Gottschalk on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | The New Thinkery Ep. 66
Interview: Jan Blits on Macbeth | The New Thinkery Ep. 65
Mark Twain's Extracts from Adam's Diary | The New Thinkery Ep. 64
Interview: Drs. Christopher Lynch and Nathan Tarcov on The Complete Tales and Poems of Niccolò Machiavelli | The New Thinkery Ep. 63
Interview: Dr. Wayne Ambler on Tacitus' Dialogue on Oratory | The New Thinkery Ep. 62
Interview: Nick Buccola on Frederick Douglass | The New Thinkery Ep. 61
Interview: Ben Kleinerman on the Federalist Papers | The New Thinkery Ep. 60
Aristophanes' Assemblywomen | The New Thinkery Ep. 59
Interview: Dr. Laurence Cooper on Alcibiades' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 58
Interview: Professor Steven Smith on Oakeshott's "Political Education" | The New Thinkery Ep. 57
The Death of Ivan Ilyich | The New Thinkery Ep. 56
Interview: Dr. Arlene Saxonhouse on Women in Plato's Republic | The New Thinkery Ep. 55
Interview: Dr. Michael Grenke on Warspeak | The New Thinkery Ep. 54
Aristophanes' The Clouds | The New Thinkery Ep. 53
Socrates' Speech Continued: Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part VIII | The New Thinkery Ep. 52
Interview: Dr. Joshua Parens on the Philosophy of Maimonides | The New Thinkery Ep. 51
Interview: Dr. Thomas Cleveland on Minos | The New Thinkery Ep. 50
Interview: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert on Abraham Lincoln | The New Thinkery Ep. 49
Plutarch on Coriolanus | The New Thinkery Ep. 48
Plutarch on Alcibiades | The New Thinkery Ep. 47
Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing | The New Thinkery Ep. 46
Interview with Bill Kristol | The New Thinkery Ep. 45
Conrad's Typhoon | The New Thinkery Ep. 44
Socrates' Speech: Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part VII | The New Thinkery Ep. 43
Interview: Professor Jeff Sikkenga on Tocqueville | The New Thinkery Ep. 42
Interview: Dr. Charles Butterworth on Alfarabi's Book of Religion | The New Thinkery Ep. 41
Rousseau's First Discourse Live at ACTC | The New Thinkery Ep. 40
Tacitus' Argicola | The New Thinkery Ep. 39
Epictetus' The Handbook | The New Thinkery Ep. 38
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Interview with Professor Michael Davis on Sophocles' Electra | The New Thinkery Ep. 37
Agathon's Speech: Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part VI | The New Thinkery Ep. 36
Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols | The New Thinkery Ep. 35
Pericles' Funeral Oration | The New Thinkery Ep. 34
Philosophy and Film 2: Love and Death (1975) | The New Thinkery Ep. 33
Aristophanes' Speech: Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part V | The New Thinkery Ep. 32
Interview with Professor Flagg Taylor on "Loss of the Creature" | The New Thinkery Ep. 31
Interview with Professor Steve Hayward on Executive Power | The New Thinkery Ep. 30
Francis Bacon's New Atlantis | The New Thinkery Ep. 29
Interview with Professor Jan Blits on Shakespeare's Coriolanus | The New Thinkery Ep. 28
Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books | The New Thinkery Ep. 27
Jacob Klein's The Idea of Liberal Education | The New Thinkery Ep. 26
William James' The Moral Equivalent of War | The New Thinkery Ep. 25
Interview with Professor Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Strauss | The New Thinkery Ep. 24
Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part IV: Eryximachus' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 23
Dickens' A Christmas Carol | The New Thinkery Ep. 22
Aristotle on Virtue | The New Thinkery Ep. 21
Winston Churchill on the Modern World | The New Thinkery Ep. 20
Interview with Professor Robert Faulkner on Francis Bacon | The New Thinkery Ep. 19
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Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus | The New Thinkery Ep. 18
Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part III: Pausanias' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 17
Francis Bacon's Great Instauration | The New Thinkery Ep. 16
The Nature of Foundings ft. James Ceaser | The New Thinkery Ep. 15
Shakespeare's Macbeth | The New Thinkery Ep. 14
Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part II: Phaedrus' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 13
Aristotle on Courage | The New Thinkery Ep. 12
Philosophy & Film 1: Zulu (1964) | The New Thinkery Ep. 11
Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part I | The New Thinkery Ep. 10
Interview with Prof. Robert C. Bartlett | The New Thinkery Ep. 9
Plato's Gorgias | The New Thinkery Ep. 8
Interview with Professor Charles Butterworth | The New Thinkery Ep. 7
Teaching Political Philosophy | The New Thinkery Ep. 6
Shakespeare's Measure for Measure | The New Thinkery Ep. 5
Reading Plato | The New Thinkery Ep. 4
A Close Reading of Machiavelli's Prince Ch. 15 | The New Thinkery Ep. 3
Machiavelli's The Prince and Modernity | The New Thinkery Ep. 2
Averroes and al-Ghazali | The New Thinkery Ep. 1
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