All Episodes

Dante's Inferno, Episode 3: Lady of the Mind

BONUS: J.J. Kimche on Science and Religion

Dante's Inferno, Episode 2: The Poet and the Beasts

Dante's Inferno, Episode 1: Middle-Aged Heretics in Hell

The Second Annual Inkling Awards

Adventures in Old English: The History and Meaning of Advent

Is This the End of the Aeneid?

Doin' It Live

Aeneas Gets a Hot Latina Baddie

THE PROPHECY HAS BEEN FULFILLED

Make Love, Not War

Augustus to Virgil: Are you Mad at Me? 🥺

Is There Life Out There?

Do You Even Prophesy, Bro?

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED???

I Will Go Down with This Ship

Once in Royal David's City, ft. Doron Spielman

Dido and Aeneas need Couples Therapy

Mean Girls

An Odyssey without an Ithaca

Galileo: The Elon Musk of the Renaissance? Ft. Dr. Brian Keating

Who Says You Can't Go Home? Virgil Does.

The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, ft. Justin Brierley

Israel and Civilization, ft. Josh Hammer

The One That Got Away: Creusa, Aeneas' AI Girlfriend

Tech and the Future of the Family, ft. Jon Askonas

After the End

Snakes on the Plain

That's the Power of Love

TarSHEESH

They Say All's Fair

More than a Woman: Dido and Aeneas's Epic Love Affair

C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid

I'm In Danger: Ralph Wiggum versus the Phoenicians

The Three Little Words no One Can Resist

Aeneas: the Frodo of Epic Poetry

The All-Time Best Aeneid Translation

Get in Loser, We're Reading Epic Poems

Epic Fail: My Review of the Return

The Inklings Awards for Literary Excellence

Odysseus: Where Is He Now?

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Advent

The Suitors Get Theirs: The End of the Odyssey

What I Learned about Lord of the Rings by Inventing a Language

The Sins of the Father: How Odysseus got his Name

How to Learn Old English (feat. Colin Gorrie)

This One's For the Boys: Ithaca's Favorite Dog

Word and Tomato Salad (Words, Words, Words 30)

Homecoming King: Calypso, Nausicaa, and Athena

Rate My Translation: Comparing Versions of the Odyssey (Words, Words, Words 29)

Choose Your Own Adventure: Scylla, Charybdis, and Tradeoffs

Special Episode: My Conversation about Science and Faith with Professor Brian Keating

Andrew Klavan: What Comes After America's Decline?

The Texas Chainsaw Underworld

The Angel on the Hilltop

Thoughts and Prayers for Odysseus: Circe's Island

Is there Objective Reality? (Words, Words, Words 28)

Cyclops Nationalism: The One Thing Worse than Politics

Light of the Mind (Words, Words, Words 27)

The Never-Ending Story: Who Is Odysseus?

The Rosetta Soul (Words, Words, Words 26)

The Unified Field Theory of Greek Myth

The Story of the Rosetta Stone (Words, Words, Words 25)

Boyz 2 Men: How Telemachus Grows Up

The Isaiah Code: How to read prophecy (Words, Words, Words 24)

Pumpkin Spice Patroclus: The real relationship between Achilles and his companion

Cracking the Code: What Bitcoin and Quantum Cryptography have to do with Kabbalah and AI (Words, Words, Words 23)

Troy but for Real: The Best Scene in the Iliad

How Alphabets are Formed (Words, Words, Words 22)

Our Greatest Technology (Words, Words, Words 21)

Muad'Dib! Why Achilles was Right and Agamemnon was Wrong

Achilles in the Coconut Tree

One More Thing: Breaking News!

Choose Your Fighter: Achilles as a Manly Archetype

What Does "This Is My Body" Mean? (Words, Words, Words 20)

Villain Origin Story: The Judgment of Paris

It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word "Is" Is (Words, Words, Words 19)

We're Reading Homer: The Movie I'm Most Excited about This Year

Lend me a Kleenex: How Foreign Words Become English (Words, Words, Words 18)

You Best Not Miss: The Assassination Attempt on Trump, according to Machiavelli

Moving in the Breeze: How to Translate Untranslatable Words (Words, Words, Words 17)

The Mac Daddy of Sports Riots: Allegregores IV

One More Thing: The Three Things You Need to Understand a Poem

The Best July 4 Poem Ever: Trump, Biden, and...Tennyson?

One More Thing: Santa Claus Made me Do It

Words, Words, Words 16: In the Beginning Was the...What??

Inside Out: Allegregores III

AI Demons: Allegregores II

Words, Words, Words 15: HWÆT!

Mother Nature Returns: Allegregores I

Interview: Discovering the Great Books with Johnathan Bi

World's Wildest Travel Blog: Dr. Fauci, the Science, and the Return of the Pagan Gods

Words, Words, Words 14: The Father of English Literature

Beyond Cultural Christianity

A Brief History of Absolutely Everything

Words Words Words 13: Viking Visibility Week

Why Read? iPads, Culture Wars, and the Point of the Canon

Words, Words, Words 12: English is a Foreign Language

Doin' It Live: How to Read a Poem for the First Time

Words, Words, Words 11: The Translation Cinematic Universe

The Abolition of Sex: IVF, Designer Babies, and Goethe's Faust

Words, Words, Words 10: The Holy Ghost Story

Nope-ing Out on Humanity

Interview: Jeremy Carl, [Insert Youtube Warning Label Here]

Say Yes to the Dress: Goethe, Newton, and the Internet's Biggest Fight Ever

Words, Words, Words 9: Mary Mary, Quite Contrary

Demons In My View: AI, Free Will, and the Quantum Revolution

Interview with John Daniel Davidson: Silence, Pagan!

Yuval Harari's Faustian Bargain

Words, Words, Words 8: It's Not Bird

I Ain't Got No Crystal Ball

Words, Words, Words 7: By Any Other Name

Kate Merlinton, Princess of Wales

Interview: Isabel Brown, Gen Z Champion

That Magician Ain't Real!

Words, Words, Words 6: What's in a Name?

The Ursula-Jafar Theory of Bad Magic

Words, Words, Words 5: She Thinks I'm a Steed!

Neuralink is Magic (And that Might Not be a Good Thing)

Interview: John A. Burtka on the Art of the Possible

Eye Has Not Seen

Words, Words, Words 4: The Holy Spirit Will Live Rent-Free in You

Yes and No

[SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT]: Light of the Mind, Light of the World

She's an Icon

Words, Words, Words 3: Puppers, Hell-Hounds, and the Dogs of War

Taylor Swift and Ben Shapiro in Thessalonike

Words, Words, Words 2: John 11:4

What's Therapy Good For?

Words, Words, Words, Part 1: Homer's Iliad I.1

The Stuff that (Actually) Matters

Interview: Alex Petkas, Ancient Life Coach

Men Should Be What they Seem

Satan at the Center of the Sun (Special Episode)

Leap Year Vibes

Interview: Louise M. Perry, "Ludicrous Crackpot"

Wise Men from the East

Interview: Inez Stepman, Bane of the Academy

Slay a Demon, Hang a Stocking: A Young Heretics Christmas Special

Interview: Paul VanderKlay, Very Online Pastor

It's All Right, It's All True, It All Happened

Interview: Stephen C. Meyer, Wizard of Sciences Natural and Divine

Like, Literally.

Interview: Faith Moore, Christmas Elf

Was Atlantis Real?

Interview: Lexi O. Hudson, Defender of Civility

Rejoice Evermore

Interview: Michael Martin, Modern-Day Druid

The Glorious Deeds of Men

Interview: Andrew Klavan, Kingpin of the Klavan Literary Mafia

Art for Art's Sake?

Interview: Mary Harrington, Reactionary Feminist

Ghosts of the Old Gods

Interview: Teresa Mull, Professional Woke-Proofer

Love versus the World

Interview: Helen Roy, Matriarch in the Making and Peacemaker Between the Sexes

The Seven Loves

Interview: Joshua Herring, Archon of the Milesian Renaissance

Oh Israel, Hope in the Lord

Interview: Emmet Penney, Nuclear Barbarian

What Do You See?

Interview: Erik Rostad, Marathon runner of the canon

Cyril of Jerusalem at Al-Anon

You Are Not Enough

The Day With No Yesterday

Office Hours!

Interview: Drew Weatherhead, Black Belt in both Physical and Mental Jiu-Jitsu

What Justice Ain't

Interview: Alex Priou, Persian Satrap of the Kallipolis

Gee, Officer Krupke

Interview: Faith Moore, Hostess of Storytime for Kids Young and Old

Observe, Orient, Decide, Aristotle

Interview: Shane Sorensen, Professional Gym Bro and Renaissance Man

News You Can Use

Interview: Peachy Keenan, Mother of Dragons and Right Wing Body Builders

Things Get Trippy

I Know Kung Fu

Spartan Moms for Liberty

Rooting for the Anti-Hero

Saddling Up (Independence Day Special)

The Many-Headed Beast

We're So Back

Ep. 138: To See the Face of God

Ep. 137: Where Matter Meets Flesh

Ep. 136: Eat Your Heart Out

Ep. 135: Quality and Quantity

Ep. 134: Guilty

Ep. 133: Everything Is Permitted

Ep. 132: Heart Truths

Ep. 131: Give All for All

Ep. 130: The Hard Question

Ep. 129: The God's-Eye View

Ep. 128: A Government of Laws

Ep. 127: Political Love

Ep. 126: In This House, We Believe

Ep. 125: Words Without End

Ep. 124: World in the Mind

Ep: 123: Splitting the Atom, Dividing the World

Ep. 122: A Complete and Total Shutdown on Celebrities

Ep. 121: Save the Republic, Turn Off Your Dang Phone

Ep. 120: Starting With the Man in the Mirror

Ep. 119: Art Reborn

Ep. 118: The Death of Art

Ep. 117: Saving Art

Ep. 116: The Man Who Would Not Be King

Ep. 115: To Bury Caesar

Ep. 114: Crossing the Rubicon

Ep. 113: The Reality Crisis

Ep. 112: Plato's Metaverse

Ep. 111: There Are Four Lights

Ep. 110: The Cave

Ep. 109: Systemic Sophistry

Ep. 108: Lindy Law and the Slippery Slope

Ep. 107: Uplifting Nonsense

Ep. 106: The Brotherhood of Man

Ep. 105: Not My King

Ep. 104: The Vatican With Mouse Ears

Ep. 103: Rationalism and the Reasons of the Heart

Ep. 102: Too Much of a Good Thing

Ep. 101: The Truth and Beauty ft. Andrew Klavan (No Relation)

Ep. 100: The State of the West

Ep. 99: Trans Communist Utopia

Ep. 98: The Abolition of Women

Ep. 97: Medieval Girlboss

Ep. 96: Hard Times Make Strong Men

Ep. 95: Chivalry's Not Dead

Ep. 94: Souls in Embryo

Ep. 93: The Firstest Things

Ep. 92: Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried

Ep. 91: All the World's a Social Construct

Ep. 90: Not Worth Living

Special: Pro-Liberty, Pro-Life ft. Kristan Hawkins

Ep. 89: Laughing at the Emperor

Ep. 88: Ruining the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Ep. 87: Platonic Resolutions

Ep. 86: God of Science

Ep. 85: The Hinge of the Universe

Ep. 84: Christmas Aliens

Ep. 83: Every Human Heart

Ep. 82: Truth in the Gulag

Ep. 81: The 1620 Project

Ep. 80: What is Art?

Ep. 79: Politics Doesn't Care About Your Art

Ep. 78: Mob Rule

Ep. 77: Be Careful What You Wish For

Ep. 76: The Eternal Library

Ep. 75: Who Decides?

Ep. 74: Who Is Free?

Ep. 73: Stronger Than Death

Ep. 72: My Redeemer Lives

Ep. 71: Face to Foot Style

Ep. 70: Young Love

Ep. 69: The Agony of Mercy

Ep. 68: Coming of Age

Ep. 67: Blood Feud

Ep. 66: What is America?

Ep. 65: "Pagans Are Wrong"

Ep. 64: The Man Who Built Europe

Ep. 63: Adultery and Courtly Love

Ep. 62: Chivalry and Hypocrisy

Ep. 61: Worst King Ever

Ep. 60: Might and Right

Ep. 59: What is a Classical Education?

Ep. 58: How to Repent

Ep. 57: Hume Was Wrong

Ep. 56: It's All Socrates' Fault

Ep. 55: Don't Eat the Bugs

Ep. 54: Liberty or Chaos?

Ep. 53: How to Die ft. Sohrab Ahmari

Ep. 52: The Indispensable Virtue

Ep. 51: Sex and the Devil

Ep. 50: Manhood and Womanhood, Body and Soul

Ep. 49: The Soul of a Murderer

Ep. 48: Rebellion Against Reality

Ep. 47: Spirit and Flesh

Ep. 46: The Eternal Conversation

Special: Saving the Republic ft. Governor Scott Walker

Ep. 45: Clash of Civilizations

Ep. 44: Empire and the Soul

Ep. 43: We Are All Epicureans Now

Ep. 42: The Stoic Life

Ep. 41: What's It All About?

Ep. 40: Truth and Beauty

Ep. 39: The Long Road Home

Ep. 38: The Right of Revolution

Ep. 37: Defying the Law

Ep. 36: The Cosmos and the Crucifixion

Ep. 35: Things Go South

Ep. 34: Are You a Good King, or a Bad King?

Ep. 33: Honor

Ep. 32: The Word Was With God

Ep. 31: How Free Should We Be? ft. Brandon Van Dyck

Ep. 30: Greeks From the Ground and Persians From Heaven ft. Tom Holland

Ep. 29: Prophets and Princes

Ep. 28: The Real Story of Thanksgiving

Ep. 27: The Blood of the King

Ep. 26: What It Takes to Rule the World

Ep. 25: The Chill of Death

Ep. 24: Undying Glory