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Real Culture, or Culture as Costume? | Episode CXIII
Send us Fan MailProperly understood, politics is an expression of culture. But the politician would like to use culture for political ends. In doing so, he boils his people's culture down to the…
Protestant and Catholic Culture | Episode CXII
Send us Fan MailSince the time of the Reformation, England has had an established Church alongside a rich variety of Protestant Dissenters as well as a group of Roman Catholic hold-outs. The country…
Nationalism and High Culture | Episode CXI
Send us Fan MailT.S. Eliot argues that cultural vitality depends in part upon a balance of unity and diversity in a nation with respect to its various regions. But this raises all sorts of questions:…
Plato the Educator | Episode CX
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Socrates and the Sophists, feat. David Talcott | Episode CIX
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The Case Against Meritocracy | Episode CVIII
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Defining "Culture" | Episode CVII
Send us Fan MailDownload Ekho: ancientlanguage.com/ekho/Subscribe to New Humanists+ for bonus episodes: buzzsprout.com/1791279/subscribePop culture. Cancel culture. Judeo-Christian culture. Everyone…
Technology Versus the Classics, feat. Timothy Griffith | Episode CVI
Send us Fan MailWhen the Loeb Classical Library was launched, the greatest language teacher of the age, W.H.D. Rouse, wrote an essay meant to promote the Loebs by extolling the magnificence of Greek…
Straussian Aristocracy, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CV
Send us Fan MailLiberal education is for the man of leisure: Either a gentleman engaged in politics, or a philosopher engaged in contemplation. What role, then, can liberal learning have in a mass…
Out of the Steppe, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIV
Send us Fan MailWhat do you think of laryngeals? How should we refer to the Anatolian languages? Where do you stand on Gimbutas and Renfrew? In this episode of New Humanists, Dr. Colin Gorrie helps…
Enter the Indo-Europeans, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIII
Send us Fan MailSupposedly, about half of the world population speaks languages that all come from one root language: Proto-Indo-European. How do we know, and where did "PIE" come from? Ukraine,…
The Sophists Are the Founders of Classical Education | Episode CII
Send us Fan MailThe classical education revival movement began in the 1980s as a DIY, grassroots attempt to recover the medieval liberal arts, most notably the Trivium of grammar, logic, and…
Big Bad Leo Strauss, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CI
Send us Fan MailWhat is liberal education? It's the prompt that has launched one thousand essays, and in a 1959 lecture at the University of Chicago, the (in)famous Leo Strauss gave his answer.…
Time Present, Time Past, Time Future | Episode C
Send us Fan MailIn celebration of the 100th episode of New Humanists, we do an extended episode that is a retrospective, discussing the history of the Ancient Language Institute and the New Humanists…
Socrates Had It Coming | Episode XCIX
Send us Fan MailSocrates taught his students contempt for the gods, how to defraud creditors, and useless trivialities about flea-jumping. Or at least, that's how Socrates appears in the comedy…
Do "Christian" and "Classical" Go Together? feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XCVIII
Send us Fan MailIn the 4th century AD, two Christian friends - Basil and Gregory - travelled from Cappadocia to Athens to go study Greek literature with Libanius, the leading rhetorician of the time.…
Jocks Versus Nerds | Episode XCVII
Send us Fan MailWe tend to think of the Athenians as philosophers, architects, and mathematicians. But their highest devotion was rather to sports and to music. These priorities are evident from…
That Other Dorothy Sayers Lecture | Episode XCVI
Send us Fan MailEveryone knows "The Lost Tools of Learning." But did you know Dorothy Sayers delivered another, longer, and even more interesting lecture on education, all about learning Latin?…
Ahh, the Greeks! | Episode XCV
Send us Fan Mail"Παιδεία found its realization in παιδεραστία." This is how Henri-Irénée Marrou characterizes the relationship between paideia and pederasty. The latter fulfilles the former. Indeed,…
Is Christianity Kitsch? | Episode XCIV
Send us Fan MailWhat if we find Norse myth or Greco-Roman myth more aesthetically pleasing than Christianity? Should we believe in the pagan gods instead? Is the Bible actually good art? Is Christian…
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