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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)

FROM VOL. 140 Matthew Rubery explores the difference between reading and listening to an audiobook. (22 minutes)

In this lecture, Orthodox theologian John Behr draws from the book of Genesis and early Church Fathers Irenaeus, Ignatius, Maximus to answer the question, What is a human being? (53 minutes)

Angela Franks explains the history of the modern concept of identity as a project and shows how it falls short of a holistic Christian view of the self. (minutes)

Jens Zimmermann reflects on why a defense of personhood is a crucial task for the future of humanity. (47 minutes)