What is slavery? What does slavery have to do with the household or the state? Brian, Lise, and Jeff dig deeper...

How do human beings confront a crisis? Anne Kniggendorf and Matt Young join Brian for a conversation about Ernest Hemingway’s short...

“Man is by nature a political animal.” Lise, Jeff, and Brian continue their conversation about Book I of Aristotle’s Politics, in...

Brian interviews Matt Young, Marine Corps veteran, English professor, and author of Eat the Apple, an memoir that has been described...

Jeff, Lise, and Brian roll up their sleeves and dig in to Aristotle’s Politics. How are this and other “Great Books”...

Douglas Lensing joins the show to talk about his path from the Navy to St. John’s College and his paper “Passion...