93 Episodes

  1. Episode 33: Nathaniel Hawthorne on the Masks We Wear: The Minister's Black Veil

    Published: 1/6/2021
  2. Episode 32: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature and the Soul

    Published: 1/3/2021
  3. Episode 31: Stoicism & Logos

    Published: 12/28/2020
  4. Episode 30: Dante on Bitcoin, Usury... and other Unspeakable Sins

    Published: 12/23/2020
  5. Episode 29: Psychological Realism in Dante's Inferno

    Published: 12/20/2020
  6. Episode 28: Parmenides: the One after Heraclitus

    Published: 12/16/2020
  7. Episode 27: What was Philosophy? Heraclitus and the Presocratics

    Published: 12/14/2020
  8. Episode 26: William James on Conversion and Mysticism

    Published: 12/10/2020
  9. Episode 25: Social Status and Psychology in Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"

    Published: 12/8/2020
  10. Episode 24: Dostoevsky, Contrarianism, and the Threat of Utopian Scientism

    Published: 12/7/2020
  11. Episode 23: The Remnant of Monologic Thought in Homer's Odyssey

    Published: 12/6/2020
  12. Episode 22: Authority and Mysticism in Derrida, The Holy Bible, and Moby-Dick

    Published: 12/2/2020
  13. Episode 21: Moby-Dick, Cosmopolitanism, and American Whiteness

    Published: 12/1/2020
  14. Episode 20: Moby-Dick, Moral Seriousness, and The Blackness of Darkness

    Published: 11/27/2020
  15. Episode 19: Thanksgiving and the Challenge of Nonconformism

    Published: 11/24/2020
  16. Episode 18: Melville, Moby-Dick, and Modernism

    Published: 11/24/2020
  17. Episode 17: The State of the Podcast & Apologizing for Loud Background Music

    Published: 11/21/2020
  18. Episode 16.1: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"

    Published: 11/16/2020
  19. Episode 15: Josephus on War, Identity, and God's Favor

    Published: 11/15/2020
  20. Episode 14: The Gospel of John and Process of Mythologization

    Published: 11/13/2020

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An ex-professor continues the search for wisdom in literature, philosophy... and parenting. Try to avoid Mammon and Moloch along the way because this show affirms Jesus Christ! More reactionary than progressive, but trying to stay optimistic. Look for new episodes at least once a week.