Here are the 18 most recent Archive Features, Bonus Features, and Conversations. Members can download and play these programs from the Library screen on their app. Add select programs to your Favorites list for more convenient access.
Quiet misanthropy vs. Christian humanism
Bishop Robert Barron explores the misanthropic and inherently unstable anthropology at the heart of the modern university and offers an alternative for human flourishing. (46 minutes)
Moral order and human depravity
“We become what we behold”
Peter Crawford explores how a sacramental education involves helping students to behold a world saturated with signs that point to Christ — and then to act as faithful stewards. (68 minutes)
The wise and good Creator
The “two-foldness” of human nature
In this lecture, Marc Barnes critiques the current reigning system of gender for its ironies, internal inconsistencies, and failure to satisfy or “work” on its own terms. (32 minutes)
The nature of things
In this 2026 lecture, Mary Harrington explores modernity’s “Thomophobic epistemological straitjacket” that bans serious inquiry into the nature of things. (41 minutes)
The popularity of C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity
The strengths of Christian scholarship
Mid-20th century intellectual consensus
The reclaiming of authentic liberalism
John Médaille examines the Christian roots of liberalism and how liberalism might be recovered from the heresy of secularism. (51 minutes)
Catechesis in “Screentopia”
In this lecture, Brad East builds a case for why he believes digital technology is the greatest threat facing American Christians today. (57 minutes)
“Your life is a miracle”
In this lecture, L. M. Sacasas questions whether Byung-Chul Han’s critique of modern life as a “burnout society” is still accurate. (40 minutes)
Truth lives in language
Craig Gay reflects on how language is not merely a tool for humans to use, but is a part of our very being as creatures made in the image of the God who is the living Word. (52 minutes)
Modern isolation
Turning Petrarchan love poetry on its head
Dr. Benedict Whalen examines the influence of Petrarchan love poetry on Europe, and he reveals through a close read of Romeo and Juliet how Shakespeare subverted key features of Petrarch’s love poems to rich effect. (54 minutes)
A living tradition
In this lecture, James Matthew Wilson explores the nature of tradition as a “condition of possibility” that situates both reason and poetry. (49 minutes)
Human beings as “word-bearers”
In this lecture, D. C. Schindler argues that misology — hatred for reason and contempt for language — is a deep cause of our current cultural crisis. (56 minutes)
How to make war on nothingness?
David Bentley Hart argues that if it rejects Christ, the only remaining option for a post-Christian culture is conscious or “narcotic” nihilism, which takes the form of absolute, meaningless volition. (66 minutes)