New Humanists
Episodes
Benedict in Regensburg: Faith, Reason, and the University | Episode XI
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is the lecture that sparked worldwide outcry - for all the wrong reasons. In reality, the Regensburg Address is a sparkling meditat...
Tolkien, Philology, and the Great Books, feat. Colin Chan Redemer | Episode X
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAt the end of his academic career at Oxford University, J.R.R. Tolkien gave his “Valedictory Address,” an analysis of the decline of...
Antony and Cleopatra, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode IX
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textShakespeare’s Roman trilogy reaches a climax in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, a love- and wine-drenched account of Octavius Cae...
Voegelin on Classics
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe hothouse of prewar Vienna played host to an unprecedented concentration of genius which eventually gave birth to modernism. Present ...
Julius Caesar, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VII
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textALI Fellow Katherine Bradshaw returns to New Humanists, in installment number two of our discussion of Shakespeare's Roman plays. T...
Coriolanus, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VI
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textDid Shakespeare actually know anything about Ancient Rome? Or was he just writing Classical Fan-Fiction? ALI Greek & Latin Fellow Ka...
Solzhenitsyn's Exhortations | Episode V
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAleksandr Solzhenitsyn is an unlikely candidate for “humanist,” especially because of his denunciation of humanism in his infamous H...
The Art of Humane Education | Episode IV
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhat is humane education? Are there techniques you can use to get students to appreciate the great books? Jonathan and Ryan discuss Dona...
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord, Pt. 2 | Episode III
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJonathan and Ryan continue their discussion of Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. T...
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord 2021, Pt. 1 | Episode II
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJonathan and Ryan dive into Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. This book stars C.S....
Humanist After All | Episode I
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis is the inaugural episode of New Humanists, the podcast of the Ancient Language Institute, found at ancientlanguage.com. ALI founder...