New Humanists Podcast
1) Enter the Indo-Europeans, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIII
Send us a text Supposedly, about half of the world population speaks languages that all come from one root language: Proto-Indo-European. How do we know, and where did "PIE" come from? Ukraine, Anatol...Show More
2) The Sophists Are the Founders of Classical Education | Episode CII
Send us a text The classical education revival movement began in the 1980s as a DIY, grassroots attempt to recover the medieval liberal arts, most notably the Trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. ...Show More
3) Big Bad Leo Strauss, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CI
Send us a text What is liberal education? It's the prompt that has launched one thousand essays, and in a 1959 lecture at the University of Chicago, the (in)famous Leo Strauss gave his answer. Despite...Show More
4) Time Present, Time Past, Time Future | Episode C
Send us a text In celebration of the 100th episode of New Humanists, we do an extended episode that is a retrospective, discussing the history of the Ancient Language Institute and the New Humanists p...Show More
5) Socrates Had It Coming | Episode XCIX
Send us a text Socrates taught his students contempt for the gods, how to defraud creditors, and useless trivialities about flea-jumping. Or at least, that's how Socrates appears in the comedy Clouds....Show More
6) Do "Christian" and "Classical" Go Together? feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XCVIII
Send us a text In the 4th century AD, two Christian friends - Basil and Gregory - travelled from Cappadocia to Athens to go study Greek literature with Libanius, the leading rhetorician of the time. W...Show More
Do "Christian" and "Classical" Go Together? feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XCVIII
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7) Jocks Versus Nerds | Episode XCVII
Send us a text We tend to think of the Athenians as philosophers, architects, and mathematicians. But their highest devotion was rather to sports and to music. These priorities are evident from their ...Show More
8) That Other Dorothy Sayers Lecture | Episode XCVI
Send us a text Everyone knows "The Lost Tools of Learning." But did you know Dorothy Sayers delivered another, longer, and even more interesting lecture on education, all about learning Latin? Sayers ...Show More
9) Ahh, the Greeks! | Episode XCV
Send us a text "Παιδεία found its realization in παιδεραστία." This is how Henri-Irénée Marrou characterizes the relationship between paideia and pederasty. The latter fulfilles the former. Indeed, fe...Show More
10) Is Christianity Kitsch? | Episode XCIV
Send us a text What if we find Norse myth or Greco-Roman myth more aesthetically pleasing than Christianity? Should we believe in the pagan gods instead? Is the Bible actually good art? Is Christian t...Show More