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FROM VOL. 143 Literary scholar Sørina Higgins talks about how the legend of King Arthur has served the English people in various political and social contexts. (23 minutes)

In this essay, Antón Barba-Kay identifies three aspects of digital technology that degrade democracies and democratic norms, and he suggests a way forward. (46 minutes)

FROM VOL. 41 Harry Blamires calls Christians to a clear-eyed understanding of the secularist age in which we live and to learn to think Christianly about all of life. (11 minutes)

FROM VOL. 122 David Bentley Hart discusses what is meant by “God” in contemporary apologetic debate among both atheists and Christians. (36 minutes)

Glenn Arbery discusses William Faulkner’s exploration of the limits of language in his novel The Sound and the Fury. (45 minutes)

In this lecture, Peter Crawford reflects on an anthropology of identity and its implications for the vocation of educators. (81 minutes)

In this lecture, Jonathan Sanford uses Plato’s Apology to explore what wisdom has to do with human flourishing. (49 minutes)

Justin Johnson argues that the anthropology and ontology of St. Maximus the Confessor provide a “user-friendly Augustinian framework” to teach literature. (59 minutes)

Heather Lloyd uses the legend of King Arthur to explore how to teach classical integrated humanities. (37 minutes)

Jeanne Schindler argues that three key technological inventions — the car, central heating, and digital devices — have contributed, respectively, to the loss of “at-homeness” people experience in the city, the home, and within ourselves. (50 minutes)

FROM VOL.95 J. Matthew Bonzo and Michael R. Stevens discuss themes from their book on the life and thought of Wendell Berry. (13 minutes)

FROM VOL. 91 Patrick Deneen discusses the differences between Aristotelian and modern political philosophy and on how Wendell Berry’s thought demonstrates his identity as a “Kentucky Aristotelian.” (32 minutes)

D. C. Schindler explores the difference between revolution as negation and revolt and revolution as a radical return to deeper origins. (50 minutes)

James Matthew Wilson explores the tragic vision of the world in Shakespeare’s plays, revealing the often-overlooked and somewhat hidden hints of grace and of Christ that point to a more hopeful view of the cosmos. (59 minutes)

Storyteller Nicholas Kotar speaks of the role of the “idiot” in Russian fairy tales, one whose simplicity and humility lead to wisdom and the transformation of those around them. (48 minutes)

Darrell Falconbourg explains the tensions inherent in the word “revolution,” which in the classical sense meant a return to an origin and in modernity means a total rupture with the past. (41 minutes)

FROM VOL. 151 Scott Newstok articulates patterns and “habit-inducing practices” that contain the possibility of intellectual growth. (24 minutes)

Joel Halldorf examines how our relationship to texts and reading changes as technology shifts. (53 minutes)