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Lectures & Interviews on the Great Books

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Episode Date
Answering Tough Questions on Machiavelli’s Ethics | Q&A
Nov 29, 2025
Why Good People Make Terrible Leaders | Machiavelli's Ethics Explained
Nov 28, 2025
Capital is Cheap, This is The Last Scarce Resource | USV’s Albert Wenger
Nov 23, 2025
Reject Globalism, Embrace Patriotism | Maurizio Viroli
Nov 07, 2025
Your Face Shapes Your Destiny | Shelley's Frankenstein Explained
Oct 31, 2025
A Masterclass on Machiavelli’s Unorthodox Christianity | Maurizio Viroli
Oct 24, 2025
Rebel Oxford Philosopher Declares War on Universities | Michael Gibson
Oct 09, 2025
The Next Best Alternative to Libertarianism | Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale’s Political Philosophy
Oct 03, 2025
How This Wittgenstein Scholar Built a $16 Billion Startup | Marcus Ryu, Oxford
Sep 27, 2025
He Studied the Great Books and Built a $2 Billion Startup | Francis Pedraza
Sep 23, 2025
How Following His Curiosity Made Him a Fortune | Colin Moran, Oxford Historian
Sep 15, 2025
The One Thing You Must Never Outsource to AI | Brendan McCord
Sep 12, 2025
Embrace the Erotic | Plato's Symposium Explained
Aug 31, 2025
The Problem with Modern Dating | David O’Connor on Nietzsche, Plato, Christ
Aug 22, 2025
Harvard Professor’s Masterclass on Machiavelli | Harvey Mansfield
Aug 16, 2025
Debate: Can AI Write a Great Book?
Aug 08, 2025
Plato’s Guide to Virtue | Cornell’s Rachana Kamtekar
Jul 05, 2025
A Systematic Critique of Stoic Philosophy | Cicero's Definibus
Jun 27, 2025
Why You Self-Sabotage | Rachana Kamtekar on Plato’s Moral Psychology
Jun 09, 2025
Introduction to Ancient Skepticism | Tad Brennan on Sextus Empiricus
Jun 01, 2025
How Stoics Reconcile Determinism & Free Will | Cornell's Tad Brennan
May 24, 2025
The Signs that AI is Conscious | Imperial's Murray Shanahan
May 10, 2025
AI's Killer-App Isn't Chatbots, It's Social | Linkedin Founder Reid Hoffman
May 03, 2025
Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics
Apr 26, 2025
The Slave Who Was Free | Berkeley’s AA Long on Epictetus
Apr 11, 2025
The Case for Emotional Pacifism | Martha Nussbaum on Britten’s War Requiem
Apr 04, 2025
Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy | AA Long on Stoicism, Skepticism, Epicureanism
Mar 28, 2025
Why Plato Hated Democracy | GRF Ferrari on the Republic
Mar 21, 2025
The First 80 years of AI, and What Comes Next | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge
Mar 11, 2025
How to Prepare for the AI Age: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler Cowen
Feb 17, 2025
Plato’s Critique of Hookup Culture | GRF Ferrari on the Phaedrus
Feb 08, 2025
Making Sense of Christianity's Violent Past | Carlos Eire
Feb 02, 2025
Introduction to Stoic Philosophy | Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
Jan 16, 2025
Yale Historian Uncovers Evidence for Levitation | Carlos Eire on Christian Miracles
Dec 23, 2024
The Surprising Source of Shakespeare’s Inspiration | Stephen Greenblatt
Nov 30, 2024
How Shakespeare Bought His Way into the Upper Class | Stephen Greenblatt
Nov 15, 2024
Rousseau's Case for Censorship | Christopher Kelly on Rousseau
Oct 11, 2024
Nietzsche: There is No Objective Right or Wrong | Brian Leiter
Sep 27, 2024
Rousseau's Second Discourse: Why The Poor Embrace Inequality
Sep 13, 2024
Withdrawal vs. Political Action | Katharina Volk on Roman Epicureanism
Sep 06, 2024
How to Combine Action & Contemplation | Katharina Volk on Cicero & Caesar
Aug 23, 2024
Can Love Survive Marriage? Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare
Aug 16, 2024
Stoicism is a Coping Mechanism | Katharina Volk on Cato
Aug 03, 2024
Why “Innovation” Was a Crime in the 16th Century
Jul 26, 2024
Overcoming Nihilism with Nietzsche | Robert Pippin
Jul 12, 2024
Self-Esteem Requires External-Validation | Fred Neuhouser on Rousseau
Jul 06, 2024
Selfish Heroes Make Great Leaders | Christopher Kelly on Rousseau
Jun 21, 2024
Rousseau's First Discourse: Science & Art Are Poisoning You
Jun 15, 2024
Reject Free Will, Become Who You Are | Brian Leiter on Nietzsche
Jun 08, 2024
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality: Masters vs. Slaves
Jun 07, 2024
Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Dec 31, 2022
Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Dec 29, 2022
Lecture V: The Christian Revelation | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Dec 24, 2022
Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Dec 21, 2022
Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Dec 16, 2022
Lecture II: Mimetic Desire and Original Sin | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Dec 10, 2022
Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
May 25, 2022