New Humanists

By Ancient Language Institute

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Episodes: 111

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Join the hosts of New Humanists and founders of the Ancient Language Institute, Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill, on their quest to discover what a renewed humanism looks like for the modern world. The Ancient Language Institute is an online language school and think tank, dedicated to changing the way ancient languages are taught.

Episode Date
Nationalism and High Culture | Episode CXI
May 01, 2026
Plato the Educator | Episode CX
Apr 15, 2026
Socrates and the Sophists, feat. David Talcott | Episode CIX
Apr 01, 2026
The Case Against Meritocracy | Episode CVIII
Mar 15, 2026
Defining "Culture" | Episode CVII
Mar 01, 2026
Technology Versus the Classics, feat. Timothy Griffith | Episode CVI
Feb 15, 2026
Straussian Aristocracy, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CV
Feb 01, 2026
Out of the Steppe, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIV
Jan 15, 2026
Enter the Indo-Europeans, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIII
Jan 01, 2026
The Sophists Are the Founders of Classical Education | Episode CII
Dec 15, 2025
Big Bad Leo Strauss, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CI
Dec 01, 2025
Time Present, Time Past, Time Future | Episode C
Nov 17, 2025
Socrates Had It Coming | Episode XCIX
Nov 01, 2025
Do "Christian" and "Classical" Go Together? feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XCVIII
Oct 15, 2025
Jocks Versus Nerds | Episode XCVII
Oct 01, 2025
That Other Dorothy Sayers Lecture | Episode XCVI
Sep 15, 2025
Ahh, the Greeks! | Episode XCV
Sep 01, 2025
Is Christianity Kitsch? | Episode XCIV
Aug 15, 2025
Sparta: Appalling and Enthralling | Episode XCIII
Aug 01, 2025
Sparta Before the Reactionary Turn | Episode XCII
Jul 15, 2025
How to Raise an Achilles | Episode XCI
Jul 01, 2025
Gamble, Marrou, and the Uses of History | Episode XC
Jun 16, 2025
Philosophy Versus the Liberal Arts | Episode LXXXIX
Jun 01, 2025
Christian Gnosticism? | Episode LXXXVIII
May 15, 2025
Replacing Machiavelli with Francesco Patrizi, feat. James Hankins | Episode LXXXVII
May 01, 2025
Using Paganism to Christianize the Pagans | Episode LXXXVI
Apr 15, 2025
The Hieronymus Option | Episode LXXXV
Apr 01, 2025
Why Modern Literature Stinks | Episode LXXXIV
Mar 15, 2025
The Declines and Falls of Classical Education | Episode LXXXIII
Mar 01, 2025
Will Classical Schools Climb Parnassus? | Episode LXXXII
Feb 15, 2025
"The Church Is Like the Ancient Roman State" | Episode LXXXI
Feb 01, 2025
What the Modern World Lost | Episode LXXX
Jan 01, 2025
A Great Books Monastery | Episode LXXIX
Dec 01, 2024
The Barren Contemplative Life | Episode LXXVIII
Nov 15, 2024
How to Train a Pastor | Episode LXXVII
Nov 01, 2024
Florence the Heir of Rome | Episode LXXVI
Oct 15, 2024
The Homer-Industrial Complex | Episode LXXV
Sep 01, 2024
Humanism, With or Without God, feat. Eric Adler | Episode LXXIV
Aug 15, 2024
Medieval Monastic Humanism | Episode LXXIII
Aug 01, 2024
How to Learn Like Thomas Aquinas | Episode LXXII
Jul 15, 2024
Pagans and Christians, Glory and Piety | Episode LXXI
Jul 01, 2024
Petrarch's Little Dark Age | Episode LXX
Jun 15, 2024
Liberal Arts for Liberal Hearts | Episode LXIX
Jun 01, 2024
What is Tyranny? | Episode LXVIII
May 15, 2024
The Renaissance Politics of Virtue | Episode LXVII
May 01, 2024
Christine de Pizan | Episode LXVI
Apr 15, 2024
Your Children Are Weak | Episode LXV
Apr 01, 2024
The Art of Language Teaching, feat. Tim Griffith | Episode LXIV
Mar 15, 2024
Republican Education, feat. Clifford Humphrey | Episode LXIII
Mar 01, 2024
Mediocrity Versus Glory in the Renaissance | Episode LXII
Feb 15, 2024
Does Education Improve the Soul? | Episode LXI
Feb 02, 2024
Pope Humanist | Episode LX
Jan 15, 2024
Prince Erasmus | Episode LIX
Jan 01, 2024
All Education Is Religious | Episode LVIII
Dec 15, 2023
Compassion Versus Classical Antiquity | Episode LVII
Dec 01, 2023
Nietzsche, Homer, and Cruelty | Episode LVI
Nov 15, 2023
The Mirror for Princes | Episode LV
Sep 15, 2023
Martin Luther for Public Schools (or, Don't Be an Ostrich) | Episode LIV
Sep 01, 2023
Only the Weak Desire a Quiet Life | Episode LIII
Aug 15, 2023
Return of the Old Gods in Germany | Episode LII
Aug 01, 2023
The Warm and Capacious Calvin | Episode LI
Jul 15, 2023
How to Educate the Queen | Episode L
Jul 01, 2023
Bread and Circuses for Rome | No Republic Was Ever Greater
Jun 15, 2023
Enter the Tarquins | No Republic Was Ever Greater
Jun 01, 2023
Democracy Dies with Lysander, feat. Alex Petkas | Episode XLVII
May 15, 2023
Education that Makes Aquinas Look Modern, feat. John Peterson | Episode XLVI
May 01, 2023
The Danger of Plato | Episode XLV
Apr 15, 2023
Can Humanism Replace Christianity? | Episode XLIV
Apr 01, 2023
Wars of Ancient Religion | No Republic Was Ever Greater
Mar 15, 2023
The Roman Will to Power | No Republic Was Ever Greater
Mar 01, 2023
Lincoln with the Bard, feat. Ted J. Richards | Episode XLI
Feb 15, 2023
Numa Numa Yeah | No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 4
Feb 01, 2023
Milton Against the Trivium | Episode XXXIX
Jan 15, 2023
Messing Up Your Kid's Education | Episode XXXVIII
Jan 01, 2023
Reflections on the Sexual Revolution in France | Episode XXXVII
Dec 15, 2022
The Startup City | No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 3
Dec 01, 2022
How to Stage a Coup | No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 2
Nov 15, 2022
No Republic Was Ever Greater, Ep. 1
Nov 01, 2022
Was Virgil Divinely Inspired? | Episode XXXIII
Oct 15, 2022
The First English Conversation, feat. Dr. Colin Gorrie | Episode XXXII
Oct 01, 2022
Maybe the Liberal Arts Are Useful? | Episode XXXI
Sep 15, 2022
Newman on Knowledge for Its Own Sake, feat. Dr. Robert Jackson | Episode XXX
Sep 01, 2022
The Classical Definition of Classical Education | Episode XXIX
Aug 15, 2022
Doing the (Intellectual) Work | Episode XXVIII
Aug 01, 2022
The Intellectual Life, Continued | Episode XXVII
Jul 15, 2022
Me, an Intellectual | Episode XXVI
Jul 01, 2022
Academic Leadership | Episode XXV
Jun 15, 2022
Justin Martyr’s First Apology, feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XXIV
Jun 01, 2022
Beowulf, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode XXIII
May 16, 2022
Should Everyone Be Educated? | Episode 22
May 02, 2022
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force | Episode XXI
Apr 15, 2022
The Trivium According to Dorothy Sayers | Episode XX
Apr 01, 2022
Don’t Read Too Much | Episode XIX
Mar 15, 2022
Oakeshott Teaches Us How (and What) to Think, feat. Dale Stenberg | Episode XVIII
Mar 01, 2022
The Original New Humanist, featuring Dr. Eric Adler and Katherine Bradshaw | Episode XVII
Feb 15, 2022
T.S. Eliot’s Praise for Privilege | Episode XVI
Feb 01, 2022
Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XV
Jan 15, 2022
C.S. Lewis on Old Books | Episode XIV
Jan 01, 2022
Learning to Read the Bible, feat. Dr. Dru Johnson and Tyler Foster | Episode XIII
Dec 15, 2021
René Girard, Myth, and the Bible, feat. Dr. Patrick Downey
Dec 01, 2021
Benedict in Regensburg: Faith, Reason, and the University | Episode XI
Nov 15, 2021
Tolkien, Philology, and the Great Books, feat. Colin Chan Redemer | Episode X
Nov 01, 2021
Antony and Cleopatra, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode IX
Oct 15, 2021
Voegelin on Classics
Oct 01, 2021
Julius Caesar, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VII
Sep 15, 2021
Coriolanus, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VI
Aug 19, 2021
Solzhenitsyn's Exhortations | Episode V
Aug 02, 2021
The Art of Humane Education | Episode IV
Jul 15, 2021
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord, Pt. 2 | Episode III
Jul 01, 2021
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord 2021, Pt. 1 | Episode II
Jun 15, 2021
Humanist After All | Episode I
Jun 01, 2021