Hot Takes on the Classics
By Emily Maeda & Tim McIntosh
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Episodes: 48
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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.
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Episode 24: Favorite Reads of 2025
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Episode 23: What We Learned About Love
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Episode 22: Waiting on God - Simone Weil: An Incandescent Life
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Episode 21: Revelations of Divine Love: St. Julian's Mystical Sight
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Episode 20: The Temple: The Architecture of the Soul — George Herbert
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Episode 19: The Art and Music of Love: Theresa, Dido, and Shepherds
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Episode 18: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections - Jonathan Edwards: Testing of Our Loves
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Episode 17: The Confessions of St. Augustine: The Journey of Transformed Love
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Episode 16: The Gospel of St. John - Cosmic Love
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Episode 15: Anna Karenina: The Marriage Plot
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Episode 14: The Making of a Great Marriage: Pride and Prejudice
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Episode 13: Romeo and Juliet: The Wisdom of Young Love
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Episode 12: The Divine Comedy: Disordered Eros
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Episode 11: The Phaedras: Love is a Madness
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Episode 10: The Wind in the Willows: A Classic Tale of Friendship
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Episode 9: Huckleberry Finn: Can a Man and Child be Friends?
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Episode 8: Cicero, On Friendship: Virtue–The Basis of Friendship
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Episode 7: Epic of Gilgamesh: Superhuman Friendship
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Episode 6: East of Eden, John Steinbeck: The American Epic
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Episode 5: Sorry, Professor – Jo’s Heart Belonged to Laurie All Along
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Episode 4: Beyond Sentimentality – The Odyssey’s Vision of Wholeness in a Disenchanted World
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Episode 3: Antigone’s Stand: Love, Loyalty, and Loss
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Episode 2: The Selection Show: Building the Love-Reading Season
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Episode 1: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Types—and Limits—of Human Love
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Episode 23: What We Learned About War: The Hard Truths of Battle
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Episode 22: Modern Music & the Art of War: From Stravinsky to Picasso—20th Century’s Rule Change
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Episode 21: Mein Kampf: The Blueprint for War & Genocide
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Episode 20: All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque: The Anti-War Protest Novel
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Episode 19: Killer Angels by Michael Shaara: The Last Humane War?
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Episode 18: Joan of Arc: Don’t Send a Man to Do a Woman’s Job
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Episode 17: On War by Clausewitz: The Years That War Changed
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Episode 16: War and Peace: How to Defeat Napoleon? Do Nothing
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Episode 15: Depicting War in Art and Music: Of Fallen Heroes and Epic Battles
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Episode 14: Paradise Lost: The Cosmic Battle of Good and Evil
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Episode 13: Henry V - Shakespeare: A Young Prince Delivers the Greatest Speech on War
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Episode 12: Song of Roland/Pope Urban/Life of Charlemagne: Battles that Become Legends
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Episode 11: Beowulf: Three Monsters and An Aging Hero
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Episode 10: The City of God: A User’s Guide for the End of Civilization
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Episode 9: Plutarch: Alcibiades and Coriolanus: Great Men to Love and Hate
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Episode 8: The Art of War by Sun Tzu: Victory without Battle
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Episode 7: Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars: Genocidal Maniac or Great Hero?
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Episode 6: The Psychomachia: Was C.S. Lewis Wrong About Prudentius?
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Introducing: Hot Takes on the Classics
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2: The Book of Judges: Where Are the Hittites?
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Episode 3: Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: Not a Modern Historian, but a Participatory Chronicler
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Episode 4: Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration: The Greatest Speech to Read
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Episode 5: Virgil, The Aeneid: Can Peace Be Built on War?
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Episode 1: The Iliad: The Opposite of War is Not Peace; It’s Liturgy
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Nov 26, 2024 |