Hot Takes on the Classics

By Emily Maeda & Tim McIntosh

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Hot Takes on the Classics is no dusty, academic approach to great books. It’s a gossipy, exciting discussion about the best literature ever written. Hosted by Tim and Emily, who are veteran teachers and long-time friends, Hot Takes is packed with playful debate, meaningful speculation, and hearty laughs.

Episode Date
Episode 24: Favorite Reads of 2025
Feb 17, 2026
Episode 23: What We Learned About Love
Feb 10, 2026
Episode 22: Waiting on God - Simone Weil: An Incandescent Life
Dec 30, 2025
Episode 21: Revelations of Divine Love: St. Julian's Mystical Sight
Dec 23, 2025
Episode 20: The Temple: The Architecture of the Soul — George Herbert
Dec 16, 2025
Episode 19: The Art and Music of Love: Theresa, Dido, and Shepherds
Dec 09, 2025
Episode 18: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections - Jonathan Edwards: Testing of Our Loves
Dec 02, 2025
Episode 17: The Confessions of St. Augustine: The Journey of Transformed Love
Nov 25, 2025
Episode 16: The Gospel of St. John - Cosmic Love
Nov 18, 2025
Episode 15: Anna Karenina: The Marriage Plot
Nov 11, 2025
Episode 14: The Making of a Great Marriage: Pride and Prejudice
Nov 04, 2025
Episode 13: Romeo and Juliet: The Wisdom of Young Love
Oct 28, 2025
Episode 12: The Divine Comedy: Disordered Eros
Oct 21, 2025
Episode 11: The Phaedras: Love is a Madness
Oct 14, 2025
Episode 10: The Wind in the Willows: A Classic Tale of Friendship
Oct 07, 2025
Episode 9: Huckleberry Finn: Can a Man and Child be Friends?
Sep 30, 2025
Episode 8: Cicero, On Friendship: Virtue–The Basis of Friendship
Sep 23, 2025
Episode 7: Epic of Gilgamesh: Superhuman Friendship
Sep 16, 2025
Episode 6: East of Eden, John Steinbeck: The American Epic
Sep 09, 2025
Episode 5: Sorry, Professor – Jo’s Heart Belonged to Laurie All Along
Sep 02, 2025
Episode 4: Beyond Sentimentality – The Odyssey’s Vision of Wholeness in a Disenchanted World
Aug 26, 2025
Episode 3: Antigone’s Stand: Love, Loyalty, and Loss
Aug 19, 2025
Episode 2: The Selection Show: Building the Love-Reading Season
Aug 12, 2025
Episode 1: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Types—and Limits—of Human Love
Aug 05, 2025
Episode 23: What We Learned About War: The Hard Truths of Battle
Apr 08, 2025
Episode 22: Modern Music & the Art of War: From Stravinsky to Picasso—20th Century’s Rule Change
Apr 01, 2025
Episode 21: Mein Kampf: The Blueprint for War & Genocide
Mar 25, 2025
Episode 20: All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque: The Anti-War Protest Novel
Mar 18, 2025
Episode 19: Killer Angels by Michael Shaara: The Last Humane War?
Mar 11, 2025
Episode 18: Joan of Arc: Don’t Send a Man to Do a Woman’s Job
Mar 04, 2025
Episode 17: On War by Clausewitz: The Years That War Changed
Feb 25, 2025
Episode 16: War and Peace: How to Defeat Napoleon? Do Nothing
Feb 18, 2025
Episode 15: Depicting War in Art and Music: Of Fallen Heroes and Epic Battles
Feb 11, 2025
Episode 14: Paradise Lost: The Cosmic Battle of Good and Evil
Feb 04, 2025
Episode 13: Henry V - Shakespeare: A Young Prince Delivers the Greatest Speech on War
Jan 28, 2025
Episode 12: Song of Roland/Pope Urban/Life of Charlemagne: Battles that Become Legends
Jan 21, 2025
Episode 11: Beowulf: Three Monsters and An Aging Hero
Jan 14, 2025
Episode 10: The City of God: A User’s Guide for the End of Civilization
Jan 07, 2025
Episode 9: Plutarch: Alcibiades and Coriolanus: Great Men to Love and Hate
Dec 31, 2024
Episode 8: The Art of War by Sun Tzu: Victory without Battle
Dec 17, 2024
Episode 7: Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Genocidal Maniac or Great Hero?
Dec 10, 2024
Episode 6: The Psychomachia: Was C.S. Lewis Wrong About Prudentius?
Dec 03, 2024
Introducing: Hot Takes on the Classics
Nov 26, 2024
Episode 2: The Book of Judges: Where Are the Hittites?
Nov 26, 2024
Episode 3: Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: Not a Modern Historian, but a Participatory Chronicler
Nov 26, 2024
Episode 4: Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration: The Greatest Speech to Read
Nov 26, 2024
Episode 5: Virgil, The Aeneid: Can Peace Be Built on War?
Nov 26, 2024
Episode 1: The Iliad: The Opposite of War is Not Peace; It’s Liturgy
Nov 26, 2024