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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)

David L. Schindler (1943–2022) explores the implications for a civilization that discards the reality that being is grounded in God. (minutes)

FROM VOL. 118 Gilbert Meilaender explains why anti-aging research cannot be a metaphysically neutral topic, and argues against the utopianism of escaping the body. (23 minutes)

Glenn Arbery describes what the genre of tragedy reveals about human experience and how it does this work of revelation. (63 minutes)

Glenn Arbery explores how lyric poetry works to reveal essential insights into human and transcendent experience. (47 minutes)

FROM VOL. 140 James Herrick discusses the “post-human” aspirations of the transhumanist movement, and how its plausibility is established by stories. (28 minutes)

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)