The Ralston College Podcast

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 Sep 25, 2019
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The Ralston College Podcast delivers a series of conversations and lectures aimed at fostering a deeper, livelier, and freer intellectual culture for us all.

Episode Date
How Dante Can Save Your Life with Rod Dreher
Mar 26, 2026
Blood Guilt and Ballot Boxes: The Oresteia in America | A Lecture by Spencer Klavan
Feb 10, 2026
Founding an Empire: Lessons from Augustus with Dr Barry Strauss
Jan 28, 2026
Universities and the Future of Civilization: In Conversation with Iain McGilchrist
Jan 20, 2026
Taking Up Your Inheritance: A Philosophical Conversation Between Student and Teacher
Dec 30, 2025
Drs Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying in Conversation with Ralston College's Students
Nov 25, 2025
The Sophia Lectures With Bret Weinstein - Lecture 4: The Relationship Between Culture and Genes
Nov 04, 2025
The Sophia Lectures With Heather Heying - Lecture 3: The Usual Suspects
Oct 28, 2025
The Sophia Lectures With Bret Weinstein - Lecture 2: Biological Nature to What End?
Oct 21, 2025
The Sophia Lectures With Heather Heying - Lecture 1: Foundations
Oct 15, 2025
Making Sense of Complex Systems with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
Oct 06, 2025
Katabasis and Return: A Conversation With Mari Otsu About Her Time at Ralston College
Aug 25, 2025
Society, Technology and Philology with Dr Jason Pedicone: Thoughts on the Study of the Classical Humanities at the Dawn of the Digital Revolution
Jul 14, 2025
Nature in Augustine's Confessions
Jun 23, 2025
Douglas Murray: Reconstructing our Culture | Renewal and Renaissance: A Ralston Symposium
Apr 23, 2025
What does it take to spark a new Renaissance?
Apr 15, 2025
Why We Tell Stories: Greg Hurwitz & Jonathan Pageau in Conversation
Apr 03, 2025
The Enduring Consolation of Philosophy with Stephen Blackwood
Mar 03, 2025
Dr Iain McGilchrist in Conversation with Ralston College's Students
Feb 10, 2025
The Sophia Lectures with Iain McGilchrist - Lecture 3: Finitude and the Infinite
Jan 13, 2025
The Sophia Lectures with Iain McGilchrist - Lecture 2: Symmetry and Asymmetry
Jan 06, 2025
The Sophia Lectures with Iain McGilchrist - Lecture 1: Division and Union
Dec 30, 2024
Dr Iain McGilchrist on the Cultivation of Wisdom
Dec 23, 2024
The Education of Iain McGilchrist, Part II: Medical School and Beyond
Dec 17, 2024
The Education of Iain McGilchrist, Part I: From Winchester College to All Souls
Dec 09, 2024
We Live in the Flicker: T. S. Eliot and Dante on the Spaces Between
Nov 18, 2024
The Other Side of Despair: The Search for Meaning in T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land"
Nov 13, 2024
Jay Parini on Why Poetry Matters
Oct 28, 2024
Polytheism and the Polis: The Drama of the Individual Before the Self with Paul Epstein | Ralston College
Aug 26, 2024
Levels of Intelligibility, Levels of the Self: Realizing the Dialectic with Dr John Vervaeke | Ralston College
Aug 02, 2024
Knowing God in the Book of Job | Dr David Novak with Ralston College
Jul 19, 2024
Unlocking Consciousness with Dr Stephen Wolfram: AI & Philosophy | Ralston College
Jul 05, 2024
From Homer to Gutenberg: Ancient Greek and Its Afterlives with Dr David Butterfield
Jul 01, 2024
Education without Indoctrination: Can It Exist? Stephen Blackwood, John Vervaeke & David Butterfield
Jun 28, 2024
Self and Story: In Conversation with Gregg Hurwitz
Jun 27, 2024
Language, Thought, and Style: The Articulated Logos in Victorian Literature with Michael D. Hurley
Jun 26, 2024
Radical Thoughts on Human Nature: Stephen Blackwood at Hillsdale College
Jun 25, 2024
The Medieval Cosmos as Permanent Apocalypse with Jonathan Pageau
Jun 24, 2024
Serious Play: Renaissance Wisdom and Cosmic Choreography | Sophia Lecture 2023 Part 5/5
Jun 15, 2024
Unveiling Aesthetics: Art, Suffering, and Transcendence | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 4/5
Jun 14, 2024
Wisdom in Paradox: The Seriousness of Play | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 3/5
Jun 13, 2024
Exploring the Inner Word: Play, Poetry, Philosophy | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 2/5
Jun 12, 2024
The Spirit of Play in Shaping Culture, Creativity, and Spirituality | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 1/5
Jun 11, 2024
The Spirit of Play: A Conversation with Professor Douglas Hedley and Dr Stephen Blackwood
Jun 10, 2024
Ep. 30 - From the Cave of Pythagoras: A Lecture and Discussion with Douglas Hedley
Mar 01, 2023
Ep. 29 - Marie Kawthar Daouda: Baudelaire and the Creation of the Poetic Self
Oct 13, 2022
Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume's Disturbing Conception of the Self
Aug 24, 2022
Ep. 27 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire's 'Philosophical Letters,' Part II
Aug 03, 2022
Ep. 26 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire's 'Philosophical Letters,' Part I
Jun 28, 2022
Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
Apr 13, 2022
Ep. 24 - Vernon Smith: Self-Interest Reconsidered
Jan 11, 2022
Ep. 23 - Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites
Nov 20, 2021
Ep. 22 - Marwa Al-Sabouni: Architecture as a Matter of Life or Death
Jul 19, 2021
Ep. 21 - Alexander Stoddart: Culture as Communion with the Dead
Jun 02, 2021
Ep. 20 - On Becoming Alan Dershowitz
May 22, 2021
Ep. 19 - Victor Davis Hanson on Who Killed Homer
Apr 15, 2021
Ep. 18 – Andrew Doyle on Free Speech and Why It Matters
Mar 30, 2021
Ep. 17 - Alexander Stoddart: A Conversation in His Studio
Mar 16, 2021
Ep. 16 - Harry Lewis and Stephen Blackwood: What's an Education For?
Feb 05, 2021
Ep. 15 – Theodore Dalrymple on Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons"
Jan 29, 2021
Ep. 14 - The Morality of Satire: Andrew Doyle and Stephen Blackwood
Jan 06, 2021
Ep. 13 - On the Freedom of Thought and Nature: Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood
Dec 18, 2020
Ep. 12 - A Discussion of 'Ivan Ilyich:' Donna Orwin and Stephen Blackwood
Oct 24, 2020
Ep. 11 - Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Oct 15, 2020
Ep. 10 - Independence in an Age of Conformity: Stephen Wolfram & Stephen Blackwood
Aug 30, 2020
Ep. 9 - Deep Thinking in a Distracted World: Cal Newport and Stephen Blackwood
Aug 03, 2020
Ep. 8 - On Freedom and Truth: Yeonmi Park & Stephen Blackwood
Jul 24, 2020
Ep. 7 - Douglas Hedley and Stephen Blackwood: Reason, Imagination, and Reality
May 13, 2020
Ep. 6 - Iain McGilchrist and Stephen Blackwood: The Unfolding of Life and Thought
Apr 19, 2020
Ep. 5 - Iain McGilchrist and Stephen Blackwood: On Finding Ourselves Within the Whole
Apr 02, 2020
Ep. 4 - Boethius and the Consolation of Philosophy
Nov 06, 2019
Ep. 3 - Jordan Peterson and Stephen Blackwood: Our Cultural Inflection Point and Higher Education
Sep 21, 2019
Ep. 2 - Jordan Peterson and Roger Scruton: On the Transcendent
Sep 21, 2019
Ep. 1 - Douglas Murray and Stephen Blackwood: On Ideological Madness and Its Antidote
Sep 20, 2019