Download or Stream this Episode David Grubbs leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about Lionel Trilling’s 1961 essay “On the Teaching of Modern Literature.”

Mark Greif recently published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that considered the importance of Partisan Review in American intellectual life (http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-Wrong-With-Public/189921/). What Greif identified as important about…

David Grubbs leads a discussion with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about Helmut Thielicke’s 1959 treatise A Little Exercise for Young Theologians. Michial’s joke

Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about Immanuel Kant’s 1784 essay “What Is Enlightenment?”

Anyone who’s spent any time at all with the New Testament is familiar with the opening sentences of the Gospel of John: “In the beginning was the Word, and the…

General Introduction – Keeping the seat warm – Danny gets it right! – Listener feedback – Christian Humanist University Personal Definitions – Exemplifying American-ness – The changing representation of Huckleberry…

General Introduction – A bunch of listener feedback – Nathan defends the dark ages – Is country music rural? – More on metamodernism – Signifying rappers with David Foster Wallace…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – The Christian Feminist Podcast Beginning with Grammar – Reflection of essential being – The trouble with the term – Self-concept and projected self –…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – Christian Humanist Profiles The Jewish Literary Explosion – Ex-minorities – Assimilation, on both sides – The face of intellectual America – Achievement in education…

General Introduction – No listener feedback – Our sister podcasts Our Stories with Country Music – West Virginia immigrants – Neo-Traditionalism – Country music and the Klan – The Dixie…

General Introduction – More weather talk – Feed problems Not Etymology but History – David turns to the OED – The Enlightenment – Byron’s parody – Intellectual vs. physical –…

General Introduction – Spring Breaked, Spring Breaking, Will Spring Break – No listener feedback The Old 100th – Which tune? – A happy coincidence – Defining our terms – Words…

That’s the end of Season 2, folks. We’ve had a great time doing the show, and we’re glad you listen. We explain our summer plans in the show itself. Keep…