These programs include new and archive interviews, readings from important journal and magazine articles, lectures by important scholars, and the occasional illustrated essay about seasonal music. The ten most recent Features are available to all from our app, and the most recent one is available on our home page. Members have access to hundreds of past Features and may download them to the app for later listening.
A radical turn
In this lecture, D. C. Schindler explores Plato’s ideas on education to argue that the essence of education is a revolution — a complete turning-around — of the soul toward God, reality, and the self. (44 minutes)
Knowledge as encounter
In this extended conversation from 2013, D. C. Schindler discusses what it would mean to restore reason to its fullness from its current impoverished conception. (40 minutes)
Wisdom on education, virtue, and membership
This Feature honors the life and legacy of Wendell Berry (1934–2026) with excerpts from interviews with Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack Baker, Michael Stevens, and J. Matthew Bonzo. (20 minutes)
Volume 140 excerpts
Hear excerpts of interviews with Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack Baker, Matthew Rubery, James Herrick, Timothy Gloege, David Hollinger, and Barrett Fisher. (37 minutes)
New lectures from the CiRCE Institute
Ken Myers introduces listeners to four recently released lectures, courtesy of our Partners. The lecturers are James Matthew Wilson, Darrell Falconbourg, Nicholas Kotar, D. C. Schindler. (19 minutes)
Taking up the tale
In this lecture, Malcolm Guite explains how the literary tradition is received, studied, indwelt, and then passed on as a living thing. (105 minutes)
A medley of voices on education
This Feature presents excerpts from several guest interviews (with David I. Smith, Scott Newstok, Norman Klassen, and Jens Zimmermann) on the topic of education. (25 minutes)
Volume 106 excerpts
Hear excerpts of interviews with Adam Briggle, John C. Médaille, Christopher Page, Christian Smith, Herman Daly, and Thomas Hibbs (33 minutes)
What we lose if we stop reading
Joel Halldorf examines the history of reading and how our relationship to texts and reading changes as technology shifts. (35 minutes)
A courageous witness
Geoffrey Zokal discusses his forthcoming film on the life and witness of Jesuit priest and theologian Henri de Lubac (1896–1991). (23 minutes)
Love precedes reason
Andrew Kern traces the ubiquity and power of the image of the temple throughout Scripture and discusses what its pattern means for education. (21 minutes)
Volume 97 excerpts
Hear excerpts from interviews with Mark Noll, Stanley Fish, James Peters, Scott Moore, and Makoto Fujimura. (28 minutes)
Reality and the relations that constitute us
Reuben Slife discusses key concerns in the work of David L. Schindler (1943–2022). 31 (minutes)
David Cayley, R.I.P.
David Cayley (1946–2026) describes Ivan Illich’s insights into the “instrumental attitude” that defines modernity, in particular the blurring of the distinction between mechanisms and organisms. (39 minutes)
Poetry and the shaping of virtue
Glenn C. Arbery discusses the Vanderbilt Agrarians, poetry, and the moral imagination and the shaping of virtue. (32 minutes)
Robert Wilken, R.I.P.
Robert Wilken (1936–2026) describes the likenesses between the cultural challenges of the late 20th century and the early Church’s era. (14 minutes)
