Online Great Books Podcast

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Episodes: 180

Richard
 Mar 10, 2022
I found OGB a few years ago after hearing Scott on Art of Manliness. It planted the idea of an autodidactic project. i got Adler's book, & have read thru the list to Aristotle. I'd join you if life were less complex, but am grateful!


 Apr 22, 2021


 Jul 24, 2020

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We discuss the great books, the great ideas and the process of liberal education.

Episode Date
#179- Burckhardt's The Greeks and Greek Civilization
Oct 12, 2023
#178- Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
Sep 29, 2023
#177- Hilaire du Berrier's Background to Betrayal: The Tragedy of Vietnam Part 2
Sep 14, 2023
#176- Hilaire du Berrier's Background to Betrayal: The Tragedy of Vietnam Part 1
Aug 24, 2023
#175- Taylor's Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education
Jul 17, 2023
#174- Kunstler's World Made by Hand Part 1
May 05, 2023
#173- John Senior and the Restoration of Realism Part 2
Mar 27, 2023
#172- John Senior and the Restoration of Realism Part 1
Mar 17, 2023
#171- Shelby Foote's The Civil War Part 1
Dec 29, 2022
#170- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
Nov 03, 2022
#169- Koontz's Odd Thomas Part 2
Sep 22, 2022
#168- Koontz's Odd Thomas Part 1
Jul 14, 2022
#167- Asimov's Foundation Part 2
Jul 07, 2022
#166- Asimov's Foundation Part 1
Jun 30, 2022
#165- Johnson's Indian Country Part 2
Jun 23, 2022
#164- Johnson's Indian Country Part 1
Jun 16, 2022
#163- Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Part 2
Jun 02, 2022
#162- Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Part 1
May 26, 2022
#161- Aquinas's Commentary On The Metaphysics (2 of 2)
May 19, 2022
#160- Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics (1 of 2)
May 11, 2022
#159- Filling the Trough
May 05, 2022
#158- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 2
Apr 21, 2022
#157- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 1
Apr 14, 2022
#156- Dewey's "Challenge to Liberal Thought" Part 2
Apr 07, 2022
#156- Dewey's "Challenge to Liberal Thought" Part 2
Apr 07, 2022
#155- Dewey's "Challenge to Liberal Thought" Part 1
Mar 31, 2022
#154- Hutchins' "The Great Conversation" Part 2
Mar 24, 2022
#153- Hutchins' "The Great Conversation" Part 1
Mar 17, 2022
#152- Salatin's Polyface Micro: Success with Livestock on a Homestead Scale Part 2
Mar 10, 2022
#151- Salatin's Polyface Micro: Success with Livestock on a Homestead Scale Part 1
Mar 03, 2022
#150- Percy's Lost in the Cosmos Part 2
Feb 24, 2022
#149- Percy's Lost in the Cosmos Part 1
Feb 17, 2022
#148- Rule of Saint Benedict Part 2
Feb 03, 2022
#147- Rule of Saint Benedict Part 1
Jan 27, 2022
#146- Shelby Foote's The Civil War Part 2
Jan 20, 2022
#145- Shelby Foote's The Civil War Part 1
Jan 13, 2022
#144- Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics Part 2
Dec 23, 2021
#143- Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics Part 1
Dec 16, 2021
#142- No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority Part 2
Dec 09, 2021
#141- No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority Part 1
Dec 02, 2021
#140- Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?" Part 2
Nov 11, 2021
#139- Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?" Part 1
Nov 04, 2021
#138- Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming Part 2
Oct 28, 2021
#137- Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming Part 1
Oct 21, 2021
#136- Maritain’s Art and Scholasticism, with Thomas Mirus (Catholic Culture Podcasts) Part 2
Oct 08, 2021
#135- Maritain’s Art and Scholasticism, with Thomas Mirus (Catholic Culture Podcasts) Part 1
Sep 30, 2021
#134- Nietzsche on Resentment: The Genealogy of Morals Part 2
Sep 16, 2021
#133- Nietzsche on Resentment: The Genealogy of Morals Part 1
Sep 09, 2021
#132- Plato's Greater and Lesser Hippias Part 2
Sep 02, 2021
#131- Plato's Greater and Lesser Hippias Part 1
Aug 26, 2021
#130- Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Aug 19, 2021
#129- On OGB Seminar Standards
Aug 12, 2021
#128- Malachy Walsh’s Socratic Scribbling Part 2
Aug 05, 2021
#127- Malachy Walsh's Socratic Scribbling Part 1
Aug 01, 2021
#126- Unrestricted Warfare Part 2
Jul 22, 2021
#125- Unrestricted Warfare Part 1
Jul 15, 2021
#124- McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, with Brett McKay (Art of Manliness) Part 2
Jul 08, 2021
#123- McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, with Brett McKay (Art of Manliness) Part 1
Jul 01, 2021
#122- Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure Part 2
Jun 24, 2021
#121- Hardy Boys: The Tower Treasure Part 1
Jun 17, 2021
#120- The Triumph of the Therapeutic Part 2
Jun 10, 2021
#119- The Triumph of the Therapeutic Part 1
Jun 03, 2021
#118- Monster Hunter International Part 2
May 27, 2021
#117- Monster Hunter International Part 1
May 20, 2021
#116- Goethe's Faust Part 2
May 13, 2021
#115- Goethe's Faust Part 1
May 06, 2021
#114- Jordan B. Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Apr 29, 2021
#113- Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death
Apr 15, 2021
#112- Mishima's Sun and Steel, with Matt Reynolds (Barbell Logic)
Apr 08, 2021
#111- Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Apr 01, 2021
#110- H.G. Wells’s The New World Order Part 2
Mar 18, 2021
#109- H.G. Wells's The New World Order Part 1
Mar 11, 2021
#108- The King of Satire Fantasy: Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
Mar 04, 2021
#107- Do Ancient Writers Always Tell You What They Mean? Unpacking Essays by Leo Strauss
Feb 25, 2021
#106- Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
Feb 18, 2021
#105- Allan Savory's Holistic Resource Management
Feb 04, 2021
#104- A Cautionary Tale: Asimov's The Naked Sun
Jan 28, 2021
#103- Filial Piety in Wendell Berry's “Pray Without Ceasing”
Jan 21, 2021
#102- Albert Z. Carr's "Is Business Bluffing Ethical?"
Jan 14, 2021
#101 - Vince Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (Simulcast)
Dec 21, 2020
#100- Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
Dec 17, 2020
#99- Federalist Papers No. 51: Exploring Separation of Powers
Dec 03, 2020
#98- A Thanksgiving Touchstone: Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want
Nov 26, 2020
#97- The Oldest Major Work of French Literature: The Song of Roland
Nov 19, 2020
#96- Mark Twain's "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut"
Nov 05, 2020
#95- Tolstoy's Mini Masterpiece: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Oct 29, 2020
#94- Michener's Tales of the South Pacific
Oct 22, 2020
#93- The Father of the Western Novel: Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage
Oct 15, 2020
#92- C. S. Forester's Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Oct 08, 2020
#91- A Founding Figure of Modern Schooling: Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation
Oct 01, 2020
#90- The First James Bond Novel: Ian Fleming's Casino Royale
Sep 24, 2020
#89- Nietzsche's On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Sep 17, 2020
#88- The Classic Hardboiled Crime Novel: Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
Sep 10, 2020
#87: Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor Part 2
Sep 03, 2020
#86: Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor Part 1
Aug 27, 2020
#85- Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" Part 2
Aug 20, 2020
#84- Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" Part 1
Aug 13, 2020
#83- Belloc's "An Essay on the Restoration of Property"
Aug 06, 2020
#82- A Landmark of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz
Jul 30, 2020
#81- The Case for Digital Currency: Nakamoto on Bitcoin
Jul 23, 2020
#80- J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy-stories"
Jul 16, 2020
#79- Rooted in Community: Berry's Jayber Crow
Jul 09, 2020
#78- Jünger's Storm of Steel
Jul 02, 2020
#77- MacIntyre's After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Jun 25, 2020
#76- A British Humor Classic: Wodehouse's The Inimitable Jeeves
Jun 18, 2020
#75- General Smedley D. Butler's War is a Racket
Jun 11, 2020
#74- Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Part 2
Jun 04, 2020
#73- Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Part 1
May 28, 2020
#72- G. K. Chesterton's What I Saw In America
May 21, 2020
#71- Citizenship In Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
May 14, 2020
#70- Are We Living in Orwell’s 1984?
May 07, 2020
#69- The Original Adventures of Conan the Barbarian
Apr 30, 2020
#68- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and “The Masque Of The Red Death”
Apr 23, 2020
#67- Montaigne's "Of the Education of Children”
Apr 16, 2020
#66- The Other Side of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Apr 09, 2020
#65- Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Love
Apr 02, 2020
#64- Transmitting Culture in Mishima's The Sound of Waves
Mar 27, 2020
#63- Frank Herbert's Dune: Testing the Limits of What it Means to be Human
Mar 21, 2020
#62- The Magna Carta: Exploring the 800-Year Legacy
Mar 12, 2020
#61- Why Did the Articles of Confederation Fail?
Mar 05, 2020
#60- The Master of Satire: Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal
Feb 28, 2020
#59- Henry David Thoreau's Walden: Why Are We Always So Busy?
Feb 20, 2020
#58- Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word: The History of Tastemakers and Influencers
Feb 13, 2020
#57- Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: How Literature Can Save Us
Feb 06, 2020
#56- How to Listen to Classical Music and Actually Enjoy It: Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 and The Heiligenstadt Testament with Michelle Hawkins
Jan 30, 2020
#55- The FAQ Show
Jan 23, 2020
#54- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Jan 16, 2020
#53- The Medium is the Massage
Jan 09, 2020
#52- Melville’s "Bartleby, the Scrivener" 
Jan 02, 2020
#51- Edward Bernays' Propaganda
Dec 26, 2019
#50- Why Read the Great Books?
Dec 19, 2019
#49- Leisure, the Basis of Culture
Dec 12, 2019
#48- Emerson's "The American Scholar"
Dec 05, 2019
#47- How We Read
Nov 28, 2019
#46- Defining Happiness: Scott and Karl Discuss Aristotle's Ethics
Nov 21, 2019
#45- Plutarch on Progress in Virtue
Nov 14, 2019
#44- The Lost Tools of Learning
Nov 07, 2019
#43- Karl Drops Out Of School
Oct 31, 2019
#42- Harold Bloom, You'll Be Missed
Oct 24, 2019
#41- Gabriel Marcel on Avoiding The Loss Of Our Humanity
Oct 17, 2019
#40- Hobbes' Leviathan
Oct 11, 2019
#39- Emerson on Self-Reliance
Oct 03, 2019
#38- On Love
Sep 26, 2019
#37- A Scandal In Bohemia
Sep 19, 2019
#36- The Lord of the Rings Part 2
Sep 13, 2019
#35- The Lord of the Rings Part 1
Sep 05, 2019
#34 - Against Dryness
Jul 31, 2019
#33 - The Loss of the Creature
Jul 24, 2019
#32 - Plato's Seventh Letter
Jul 17, 2019
#31 - Moments II: Thucydides & The Thin Veneer of Civility
Jul 10, 2019
#30 - How to Start Your Own Home Reading Group with Thad Hensley
Jul 03, 2019
#29 - Moments I: Medea's Terrifying Rationality
Jun 26, 2019
#28 - "We believe in nothing!" The Stakes of Meaninglessness in Nietzsche's "The Joyful Wisdom"
Jun 13, 2019
#27 - Is There Virtue Among Cannibals? Scott and Miles Discuss Montaigne's "Of Cannibals"
May 15, 2019
#26 - Brevity is The Soul of Wit... and Effective Communication
May 08, 2019
#25 - Analyzing Freud's Melancholia and Mourning with Psychiatrist David Puder, MD
May 01, 2019
#24 - Euclid & The Shape of Modern Science with Emmet Penney
Apr 24, 2019
#23 - Shakespeare's Hamlet Pt. 2: What Is The Question, Exactly?
Apr 17, 2019
#22 - Shakespeare's Hamlet Pt. 1: The First Modern Masterpiece?
Apr 11, 2019
#21 - The College Trap Pt. 2 with Brett Veinoitte (School Sucks Podcast)
Mar 27, 2019
#20 - The College Trap: How College Became A Religious Belief with Brett Veinoitte (School Sucks Podcast)
Mar 21, 2019
#19 - The OGB Seminar Experience, and Why Your Voice Matters
Mar 14, 2019
#18 - Authenticity in Speech: The Importance of Speaking Your Mind with John Syc
Mar 06, 2019
#17 - The Socratic Scribbler: Malachy Walsh on Writing and Saying What You Mean
Feb 27, 2019
#16 - Brett McKay (Art of Manliness) on Dante's Divine Comedy
Feb 20, 2019
#15 - Marsha Familaro Enright on Montessori, Meeting Ayn Rand, and Building Reading Confidence in Adults
Feb 14, 2019
#14 - Wrapping Up Plato's Republic: Is It Really About Love?
Feb 06, 2019
#13 - Plato's Republic, Books I-V: Satire or a Manual for Government?
Dec 27, 2018
#12 - Ideas in Action: Adam Rose and The Great Books
Dec 11, 2018
#11 - Scott on The Canon Ball Podcast: Round Table Talk - Literature!
Dec 04, 2018
#10 - What Is Justice? Plato's Republic: Book I
Nov 20, 2018
#9 - What's in a Question? The Art of Asking Good Questions
Oct 02, 2018
#8 - (M)Ad Man: How the Classics Informed Malachy Walsh's Career in Advertising
Sep 18, 2018
#7 - Quintus Curtius: Breathing New Life into Latin Translation
Sep 03, 2018
#1- Intellectual Linear Progression talks Homer's "The Iliad"
Aug 27, 2018
#5 - Dr. Jordan Peterson Discusses the Importance of Great Books
Aug 27, 2018
#4 - Why We Read (the Great Books)
Aug 27, 2018
#3 - Karl Schudt and Emmet Penney on ReConsider: How Dead Philosophers Influence Us Today
Aug 27, 2018
#2- OnlineGreatBooks.com talks Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound"
Aug 27, 2018
#6 - OGB Seminar Leaders Discuss Plato's The Meno
Aug 24, 2018