Christian Humanist Profiles 192: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Stream or download this episode. As the bad news continues to roll in about American higher education—its devotion to ideologies, libertarian and Marxist, its loss of humanities program after humanities…
Book of Nature, Ep. 38: The Challenges of COVID-19
In this episode, recorded in early May, Dan and Charles reflect on the first couple of months of disruption to academic lives, and otherwise, due to COVID-19. Listen to this…
City of Man, Episode 112: Your Country 8, Garth Brooks
Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle, Michial, and Danny talk about the influence of Garth Brooks on Country Music in the 1990s.
Christian Humanist Profiles 191: Jessica Hooten Wilson
Stream or download this episode. Jessica Hooten Wilson joins Christina Bieber Lake to talk about her recent First Things article, “How Flannery O’Connor Fought Racism,” a response to a recent Paul Elie New…
Before They Were Live, Episode 32: The Lion King
Stream or download this episode. Visit our website! Josh and Michial are joined by Night Cheese‘s Stephen Sandridge to talk about 1994’s The Lion King.
Book of Nature, Ep. 37: DNA
At long last, another Book of Nature Episode (recorded in March just as COVID-19 was beginning to take hold and shape nearly everything) finds your hosts musing on a story…
CHP Rewind: Episode 188, For Common Things, Pt. 2
Stream or download this episode. We present the second episode in our 2016 series on Jedediah Purdy’s For Common Things.
City of Man, Episode 111: Your Country 7, the 1980s
Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle, Michial, and Danny talk about Country Music in the 1980s, including group acts, neo-traditionalism, and new/young country.
CHP Rewind: Episode 187: For Common Things, Pt. 1
Stream or download this episode. As the electoral conventions draw night, we’re pleased to present our three-part discussion of Jedediah Purdy’s For Common Things, which originally aired when Obama was still…
City of Man, Episode 110: Your Country 6.2, the 1970s
Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle, Danny, and Michial finish their conversation about Country music in the 1970s, focusing on the role of women in the genre…
Christian Humanist Profiles 190: Beyond the Story
Stream or download this episode. Human beings have been telling one another stories as long as there’s been language, and probably even before that. And a huge component of human…
The Core Curriculum, Series 3, Episode 5: Sappho’s Aesthetics
Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer, Jay Eldred, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about some of Sappho’s poems about art and beauty: “Abanthis, Please Pick Up Your Lyre” (Voigt…
CHP Rewind, Episode 147: H.P. Lovecraft
Stream or download this episode. In this episode from 2014, David Grubbs talks to Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about three H.P. Lovecraft short stories: “The Call of Cthulu,” “Arthur Jermyn,”…
City of Man, Episode 109: Your Country 6.1, the 1970s
Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle, Danny, and Michial begin a conversation about Country music in the 1970s. They focus on technological and cultural changes in the…
The Core Curriculum, Series 3, Episode 4: Sappho on Age and Death
Stream or download this episode. Christina Bieber Lake, Nathan Gilmour, and Jay Eldred talk about some of Sappho’s poems about aging and death: “But When You Lie Dead” (Lobel-Page 55);…