Young Heretics

By Spencer Klavan

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Subscribers: 374
Reviews: 14
Episodes: 279

Kate
 Nov 7, 2024
Such a great podcast, erudite and charming

Anon Anon
 Oct 8, 2023
The classics are foundational to understanding the world we live in and there is no more delightful teacher of it than Spencer Klaven. Thank you so much for the gift you give us, this knowledge and your love of it.


 Feb 13, 2022

Gabriela
 Jan 6, 2021
Informative, engaging, important dialogue about culture, and the good, true, and beautiful.


 Oct 27, 2020

Description

The classical education you never knew you were missing. Join scholar and writer Spencer Klavan on a tour through the great works of the West. In a world gone mad, we're not alone: the great men and women who went before us have wisdom to guide us. With their help, we can recover truth, beauty, and the stuff that matters.

Episode Date
How to Learn Old English (feat. Colin Gorrie)
Nov 08, 2024
This One's For the Boys: Ithaca's Favorite Dog
Nov 06, 2024
Word and Tomato Salad (Words, Words, Words 30)
Nov 01, 2024
Homecoming King: Calypso, Nausicaa, and Athena
Oct 30, 2024
Rate My Translation: Comparing Versions of the Odyssey (Words, Words, Words 29)
Oct 25, 2024
Choose Your Own Adventure: Scylla, Charybdis, and Tradeoffs
Oct 22, 2024
Special Episode: My Conversation about Science and Faith with Professor Brian Keating
Oct 21, 2024
Andrew Klavan: What Comes After America's Decline?
Oct 18, 2024
The Texas Chainsaw Underworld
Oct 15, 2024
The Angel on the Hilltop
Oct 12, 2024
Thoughts and Prayers for Odysseus: Circe's Island
Oct 08, 2024
Is there Objective Reality? (Words, Words, Words 28)
Oct 04, 2024
Cyclops Nationalism: The One Thing Worse than Politics
Oct 01, 2024
Light of the Mind (Words, Words, Words 27)
Sep 27, 2024
The Never-Ending Story: Who Is Odysseus?
Sep 24, 2024
The Rosetta Soul (Words, Words, Words 26)
Sep 20, 2024
The Unified Field Theory of Greek Myth
Sep 17, 2024
The Story of the Rosetta Stone (Words, Words, Words 25)
Sep 13, 2024
Boyz 2 Men: How Telemachus Grows Up
Sep 10, 2024
The Isaiah Code: How to read prophecy (Words, Words, Words 24)
Sep 06, 2024
Pumpkin Spice Patroclus: The real relationship between Achilles and his companion
Sep 03, 2024
Cracking the Code: What Bitcoin and Quantum Cryptography have to do with Kabbalah and AI (Words, Words, Words 23)
Aug 30, 2024
Troy but for Real: The Best Scene in the Iliad
Aug 27, 2024
How Alphabets are Formed (Words, Words, Words 22)
Aug 24, 2024
Our Greatest Technology (Words, Words, Words 21)
Aug 22, 2024
Muad'Dib! Why Achilles was Right and Agamemnon was Wrong
Aug 20, 2024
Achilles in the Coconut Tree
Aug 13, 2024
One More Thing: Breaking News!
Aug 09, 2024
Choose Your Fighter: Achilles as a Manly Archetype
Aug 06, 2024
What Does "This Is My Body" Mean? (Words, Words, Words 20)
Aug 05, 2024
Villain Origin Story: The Judgment of Paris
Jul 30, 2024
It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word "Is" Is (Words, Words, Words 19)
Jul 26, 2024
We're Reading Homer: The Movie I'm Most Excited about This Year
Jul 23, 2024
Lend me a Kleenex: How Foreign Words Become English (Words, Words, Words 18)
Jul 19, 2024
You Best Not Miss: The Assassination Attempt on Trump, according to Machiavelli
Jul 16, 2024
Moving in the Breeze: How to Translate Untranslatable Words (Words, Words, Words 17)
Jul 12, 2024
The Mac Daddy of Sports Riots: Allegregores IV
Jul 10, 2024
One More Thing: The Three Things You Need to Understand a Poem
Jul 05, 2024
The Best July 4 Poem Ever: Trump, Biden, and...Tennyson?
Jul 02, 2024
One More Thing: Santa Claus Made me Do It
Jun 28, 2024
Words, Words, Words 16: In the Beginning Was the...What??
Jun 26, 2024
Inside Out: Allegregores III
Jun 25, 2024
AI Demons: Allegregores II
Jun 18, 2024
Words, Words, Words 15: HWÆT!
Jun 14, 2024
Mother Nature Returns: Allegregores I
Jun 11, 2024
Interview: Discovering the Great Books with Johnathan Bi
Jun 07, 2024
World's Wildest Travel Blog: Dr. Fauci, the Science, and the Return of the Pagan Gods
Jun 04, 2024
Words, Words, Words 14: The Father of English Literature
May 31, 2024
Beyond Cultural Christianity
May 28, 2024
A Brief History of Absolutely Everything
May 21, 2024
A Brief History of Absolutely Everything
May 21, 2024
Words Words Words 13: Viking Visibility Week
May 17, 2024
Why Read? iPads, Culture Wars, and the Point of the Canon
May 14, 2024
Words, Words, Words 12: English is a Foreign Language
May 10, 2024
Doin' It Live: How to Read a Poem for the First Time
May 07, 2024
Words, Words, Words 11: The Translation Cinematic Universe
May 03, 2024
The Abolition of Sex: IVF, Designer Babies, and Goethe's Faust
Apr 30, 2024
Words, Words, Words 10: The Holy Ghost Story
Apr 26, 2024
Nope-ing Out on Humanity
Apr 23, 2024
Interview: Jeremy Carl, [Insert Youtube Warning Label Here]
Apr 19, 2024
Say Yes to the Dress: Goethe, Newton, and the Internet's Biggest Fight Ever
Apr 16, 2024
Words, Words, Words 9: Mary Mary, Quite Contrary
Apr 12, 2024
Demons In My View: AI, Free Will, and the Quantum Revolution
Apr 09, 2024
Interview with John Daniel Davidson: Silence, Pagan!
Apr 05, 2024
Yuval Harari's Faustian Bargain
Apr 02, 2024
Words, Words, Words 8: It's Not Bird
Mar 29, 2024
I Ain't Got No Crystal Ball
Mar 26, 2024
Words, Words, Words 7: By Any Other Name
Mar 22, 2024
Kate Merlinton, Princess of Wales
Mar 19, 2024
Interview: Isabel Brown, Gen Z Champion
Mar 15, 2024
That Magician Ain't Real!
Mar 12, 2024
Words, Words, Words 6: What's in a Name?
Mar 08, 2024
The Ursula-Jafar Theory of Bad Magic
Mar 05, 2024
Words, Words, Words 5: She Thinks I'm a Steed!
Mar 01, 2024
Neuralink is Magic (And that Might Not be a Good Thing)
Feb 27, 2024
Interview: John A. Burtka on the Art of the Possible
Feb 23, 2024
Eye Has Not Seen
Feb 20, 2024
Words, Words, Words 4: The Holy Spirit Will Live Rent-Free in You
Feb 16, 2024
Yes and No
Feb 13, 2024
[SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT]: Light of the Mind, Light of the World
Feb 09, 2024
She's an Icon
Feb 06, 2024
Words, Words, Words 3: Puppers, Hell-Hounds, and the Dogs of War
Feb 02, 2024
Taylor Swift and Ben Shapiro in Thessalonike
Jan 30, 2024
Words, Words, Words 2: John 11:4
Jan 26, 2024
What's Therapy Good For?
Jan 23, 2024
Words, Words, Words, Part 1: Homer's Iliad I.1
Jan 19, 2024
The Stuff that (Actually) Matters
Jan 16, 2024
Interview: Alex Petkas, Ancient Life Coach
Jan 12, 2024
Men Should Be What they Seem
Jan 09, 2024
Satan at the Center of the Sun (Special Episode)
Jan 05, 2024
Leap Year Vibes
Jan 02, 2024
Interview: Louise M. Perry, "Ludicrous Crackpot"
Dec 29, 2023
Wise Men from the East
Dec 26, 2023
Interview: Inez Stepman, Bane of the Academy
Dec 22, 2023
Slay a Demon, Hang a Stocking: A Young Heretics Christmas Special
Dec 19, 2023
Interview: Paul VanderKlay, Very Online Pastor
Dec 15, 2023
It's All Right, It's All True, It All Happened
Dec 12, 2023
Interview: Stephen C. Meyer, Wizard of Sciences Natural and Divine
Dec 08, 2023
Like, Literally.
Dec 05, 2023
Interview: Faith Moore, Christmas Elf
Dec 01, 2023
Was Atlantis Real?
Nov 28, 2023
Interview: Lexi O. Hudson, Defender of Civility
Nov 24, 2023
Rejoice Evermore
Nov 21, 2023
Interview: Michael Martin, Modern-Day Druid
Nov 17, 2023
The Glorious Deeds of Men
Nov 14, 2023
Interview: Andrew Klavan, Kingpin of the Klavan Literary Mafia
Nov 10, 2023
Art for Art’s Sake?
Nov 07, 2023
Interview: Mary Harrington, Reactionary Feminist
Nov 03, 2023
Ghosts of the Old Gods
Oct 31, 2023
Interview: Teresa Mull, Professional Woke-Proofer
Oct 27, 2023
Love versus the World
Oct 24, 2023
Interview: Helen Roy, Matriarch in the Making and Peacemaker Between the Sexes
Oct 20, 2023
The Seven Loves
Oct 17, 2023
Interview: Joshua Herring, Archon of the Milesian Renaissance
Oct 13, 2023
Oh Israel, Hope in the Lord
Oct 10, 2023
Interview: Emmet Penney, Nuclear Barbarian
Oct 06, 2023
What Do You See?
Oct 03, 2023
Interview: Erik Rostad, Marathon runner of the canon
Sep 29, 2023
Cyril of Jerusalem at Al-Anon
Sep 26, 2023
You Are Not Enough
Sep 19, 2023
The Day With No Yesterday
Sep 12, 2023
Office Hours!
Sep 05, 2023
Interview: Drew Weatherhead, Black Belt in both Physical and Mental Jiu-Jitsu
Sep 01, 2023
What Justice Ain't
Aug 29, 2023
Interview: Alex Priou, Persian Satrap of the Kallipolis
Aug 25, 2023
Gee, Officer Krupke
Aug 22, 2023
Interview: Faith Moore, Hostess of Storytime for Kids Young and Old
Aug 18, 2023
Observe, Orient, Decide, Aristotle
Aug 15, 2023
Interview: Shane Sorensen, Professional Gym Bro and Renaissance Man
Aug 11, 2023
News You Can Use
Aug 08, 2023
Interview: Peachy Keenan, Mother of Dragons and Right Wing Body Builders
Aug 04, 2023
Things Get Trippy
Aug 01, 2023
I Know Kung Fu
Jul 25, 2023
Spartan Moms for Liberty
Jul 18, 2023
Rooting for the Anti-Hero
Jul 11, 2023
Saddling Up (Independence Day Special)
Jul 04, 2023
The Many-Headed Beast
Jun 27, 2023
We're So Back
Jun 20, 2023
Ep. 138: To See the Face of God
Jan 03, 2023
Ep. 137: Where Matter Meets Flesh
Dec 27, 2022
Ep. 136: Eat Your Heart Out
Dec 20, 2022
Ep. 135: Quality and Quantity
Dec 13, 2022
Ep. 134: Guilty
Dec 06, 2022
Ep. 133: Everything Is Permitted
Nov 29, 2022
Ep. 132: Heart Truths
Nov 22, 2022
Ep. 131: Give All for All
Nov 15, 2022
Ep. 130: The Hard Question
Nov 08, 2022
Ep. 129: The God’s-Eye View
Nov 01, 2022
Ep. 128: A Government of Laws
Oct 25, 2022
Ep. 127: Political Love
Oct 18, 2022
Ep. 126: In This House, We Believe
Oct 11, 2022
Ep. 125: Words Without End
Oct 04, 2022
Ep. 124: World in the Mind
Sep 27, 2022
Ep: 123: Splitting the Atom, Dividing the World
Sep 20, 2022
Ep. 122: A Complete and Total Shutdown on Celebrities
Sep 13, 2022
Ep. 121: Save the Republic, Turn Off Your Dang Phone
Sep 06, 2022
Ep. 120: Starting With the Man in the Mirror
Aug 30, 2022
Ep. 119: Art Reborn
Aug 23, 2022
Ep. 118: The Death of Art
Aug 16, 2022
Ep. 117: Saving Art
Aug 09, 2022
Ep. 116: The Man Who Would Not Be King
Aug 02, 2022
Ep. 115: To Bury Caesar
Jul 26, 2022
Ep. 114: Crossing the Rubicon
Jul 19, 2022
Ep. 113: The Reality Crisis
Jul 12, 2022
Ep. 112: Plato's Metaverse
Jul 05, 2022
Ep. 111: There Are Four Lights
Jun 28, 2022
Ep. 110: The Cave
Jun 21, 2022
Ep. 109: Systemic Sophistry
Jun 14, 2022
Ep. 108: Lindy Law and the Slippery Slope
Jun 07, 2022
Ep. 107: Uplifting Nonsense
May 31, 2022
Ep. 106: The Brotherhood of Man
May 24, 2022
Ep. 105: Not My King
May 17, 2022
Ep. 104: The Vatican With Mouse Ears
May 10, 2022
Ep. 103: Rationalism and the Reasons of the Heart
May 03, 2022
Ep. 102: Too Much of a Good Thing
Apr 26, 2022
Ep. 101: The Truth and Beauty ft. Andrew Klavan (No Relation)
Apr 20, 2022
Ep. 100: The State of the West
Apr 12, 2022
Ep. 99: Trans Communist Utopia
Apr 05, 2022
Ep. 98: The Abolition of Women
Mar 29, 2022
Ep. 97: Medieval Girlboss
Mar 22, 2022
Ep. 96: Hard Times Make Strong Men
Mar 15, 2022
Ep. 95: Chivalry's Not Dead
Mar 08, 2022
Ep. 94: Souls in Embryo
Mar 01, 2022
Ep. 93: The Firstest Things
Feb 22, 2022
Ep. 92: Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried
Feb 15, 2022
Ep. 91: All the World's a Social Construct
Feb 08, 2022
Ep. 90: Not Worth Living
Feb 01, 2022
Special: Pro-Liberty, Pro-Life ft. Kristan Hawkins
Jan 27, 2022
Ep. 89: Laughing at the Emperor
Jan 25, 2022
Ep. 88: Ruining the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Jan 18, 2022
Ep. 87: Platonic Resolutions
Jan 11, 2022
Ep. 86: God of Science
Jan 04, 2022
Ep. 85: The Hinge of the Universe
Dec 28, 2021
Ep. 84: Christmas Aliens
Dec 21, 2021
Ep. 83: Every Human Heart
Dec 14, 2021
Ep. 82: Truth in the Gulag
Dec 08, 2021
Ep. 81: The 1620 Project
Nov 30, 2021
Ep. 80: What is Art?
Nov 23, 2021
Ep. 79: Politics Doesn't Care About Your Art
Nov 16, 2021
Ep. 78: Mob Rule
Nov 09, 2021
Ep. 77: Be Careful What You Wish For
Nov 02, 2021
Ep. 76: The Eternal Library
Oct 26, 2021
Ep. 75: Who Decides?
Oct 19, 2021
Ep. 74: Who Is Free?
Oct 12, 2021
Ep. 73: Stronger Than Death
Oct 06, 2021
Ep. 72: My Redeemer Lives
Sep 28, 2021
Ep. 71: Face to Foot Style
Sep 21, 2021
Ep. 70: Young Love
Sep 14, 2021
Ep. 69: The Agony of Mercy
Sep 07, 2021
Ep. 68: Coming of Age
Aug 31, 2021
Ep. 67: Blood Feud
Aug 24, 2021
Ep. 66: What is America?
Aug 17, 2021
Ep. 65: “Pagans Are Wrong”
Aug 10, 2021
Ep. 64: The Man Who Built Europe
Aug 03, 2021
Ep. 63: Adultery and Courtly Love
Jul 27, 2021
Ep. 62: Chivalry and Hypocrisy
Jul 20, 2021
Ep. 61: Worst King Ever
Jul 13, 2021
Ep. 60: Might and Right
Jul 06, 2021
Ep. 59: What is a Classical Education?
Jun 30, 2021
Ep. 58: How to Repent
Jun 22, 2021
Ep. 57: Hume Was Wrong
Jun 15, 2021
Ep. 56: It's All Socrates' Fault
Jun 08, 2021
Ep. 55: Don't Eat the Bugs
Jun 01, 2021
Ep. 54: Liberty or Chaos?
May 26, 2021
Ep. 53: How to Die ft. Sohrab Ahmari
May 18, 2021
Ep. 52: The Indispensable Virtue
May 12, 2021
Ep. 51: Sex and the Devil
May 04, 2021
Ep. 50: Manhood and Womanhood, Body and Soul
Apr 28, 2021
Ep. 49: The Soul of a Murderer
Apr 20, 2021
Ep. 48: Rebellion Against Reality
Apr 13, 2021
Ep. 47: Spirit and Flesh
Apr 06, 2021
Ep. 46: The Eternal Conversation
Mar 30, 2021
Special: Saving the Republic ft. Governor Scott Walker
Mar 29, 2021
Ep. 45: Clash of Civilizations
Mar 23, 2021
Ep. 44: Empire and the Soul
Mar 16, 2021
Ep. 43: We Are All Epicureans Now
Mar 09, 2021
Ep. 42: The Stoic Life
Mar 02, 2021
Ep. 41: What's It All About?
Feb 24, 2021
Ep. 40: Truth and Beauty
Feb 16, 2021
Ep. 39: The Long Road Home
Feb 09, 2021
Ep. 38: The Right of Revolution
Feb 02, 2021
Ep. 37: Defying the Law
Jan 26, 2021
Ep. 36: The Cosmos and the Crucifixion
Jan 19, 2021
Ep. 35: Things Go South
Jan 12, 2021
Ep. 34: Are You a Good King, or a Bad King?
Jan 05, 2021
Ep. 33: Honor
Dec 29, 2020
Ep. 32: The Word Was With God
Dec 22, 2020
Ep. 31: How Free Should We Be? ft. Brandon Van Dyck
Dec 15, 2020
Ep. 30: Greeks From the Ground and Persians From Heaven ft. Tom Holland
Dec 08, 2020
Ep. 29: Prophets and Princes
Dec 01, 2020
Ep. 28: The Real Story of Thanksgiving
Nov 26, 2020
Ep. 27: The Blood of the King
Nov 17, 2020
Ep. 26: What It Takes to Rule the World
Nov 10, 2020
Ep. 25: The Chill of Death
Oct 31, 2020
Ep. 24: Undying Glory
Oct 27, 2020
Ep. 23: Mean Streets and Tough Men
Oct 20, 2020
Ep. 22: Heroes of Old
Oct 13, 2020
Ep. 21: What Are You For?
Oct 06, 2020
Ep. 20: All Shall be Well
Sep 29, 2020
Ep. 19: The Death of the Old World
Sep 22, 2020
Ep. 18: The Resurrection of the West
Sep 15, 2020
Ep. 17: Chaos
Sep 08, 2020
Ep. 16: Greece at War ft. Victor Davis Hanson
Sep 02, 2020
Ep. 15: The Bloody Surgeon
Aug 25, 2020
Ep. 14: God Beyond Time
Aug 18, 2020
Ep. 13: Capitalist Music ft. Stephen Limbaugh
Aug 13, 2020
Ep. 12: Freedom and the Fall of Man
Aug 04, 2020
Ep. 11: America’s Eternal Truths ft. Senator Ted Cruz
Jul 28, 2020
Ep. 10: Manhood and the Fall of Civilization
Jul 21, 2020
Ep. 9: The Beginning of the End
Jul 14, 2020
Ep. 8: Who Walks Beside You?
Jul 07, 2020
Ep. 7: Fragments Shored Against Our Ruin
Jun 30, 2020
Ep. 6: The Pride Before the Fall
Jun 23, 2020
Ep. 5: The Greatest Intellectual of the 20th Century
Jun 16, 2020
Ep. 4: What is Love?
Jun 09, 2020
Ep. 3: Birth of an Empire
Jun 02, 2020
Ep. 2: God's Prophet in the Valley of Death
May 26, 2020
Ep. 1: Glory and the Songs of War
May 19, 2020
Trailer: Culture Without the Culture Wars
May 15, 2020