General Introduction – Sweaty technology – In which we creep up on fifty – Name-dropping with Nathan Gilmour – Giving the listeners what they want How English Departments Used to…

On the need for discrimination and prejudice in arts criticism. Paul Williams pleads the case for Sunday School. Claes G. Wyn calls for enduring resolve in the culture wars. Stanley…

General Introduction – Nathan Gilmour watches from the stands – What’s on the blog? – The sad science of naming links posts – Listener feedback – Is anyone still listening?…

Garry Wills goes all Nate Gilmour on Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Torrance Kelly. OH SNAP. Susan Wise Bauer gets hate mail from both sides. Do we worship our partisan political…

General Introduction – What’s on the blog? – Listener feedback Plato Gets Hostile – Nathan explains Weaver – Why does Plato hate rhetoric? – Structure vs. content – What is…

A conservative complains about the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. What that R-rated incident at Northwestern University really means. Meliorists vs. Traditionalists: The cage match for the ages. Christopher…

In the dead time between semesters, the podcast received a very thoughtful email from listener Ben Mordecai, one asking for more information about our Heidegger episode (one of our best,…

General Introduction – Hey, it’s Spring Break (for some of us) – Good news! – Grubbs apologizes for our hiatus – Why we’re better than the other podcasts – What’s…

RIP John Shawcross, Milton scholar. How Top Gun killed the American movie. Jerry Salyer warns against (and admits the inevitability of) a knee-jerk Europhobia. Leonard Davis demonstrates the painful insularity…

General Introduction – We’re all back! – Farmer’s hobbit faux pas Defining the Phenomenon – Robin Williams and the English Romantics – Personal fulfillment – Raging against the machine with…

General Introduction – Do suits make you smarter? – Pardon Michial’s head cold – A plug for the CWC The History of the King James Version – And the Bibles…

General Introduction – New segment: Michial Farmer’s world of women’s fashion – Thanks for not writing in – Why Nathan is the left-leaner amongst us – What’s on the blog?…

The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University By Louis Menand. 174 pp. W.W. Norton. $14.95 (paperback) I missed The Marketplace of Ideas when it was first…

We hope you enjoy our fight in the final segment! General Introduction – Nathan Gilmour does it all – Where’s Grubbsy this week? – Is there a difference between Iowa…

Season four begins with a bang! General Introduction – Welcome to Season 4 – David remains transient – Michial and his dissertation – That .01 episode from December – What’s…