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Podcast Profile: The New Thinkery

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224 episodes
2020 to 2024
Median: 64 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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"The New Thinkery" is a podcast dedicated to the exploration of political philosophy and its historical and cultural manifestations. Named after Socrates’ "Thinkery" in Aristophanes’ Clouds, the podcast seeks to strike a balance between serious academic discourse and the relaxed nature of casual discussion among friends. The thematic scope of this podcast spans a wide range of philosophical subjects, touching upon ancient Greek and Roman thought, biblical philosophy, and modern political theories.

Episodes feature deep dives into notable works by philosophers such as Leo Strauss, Aristotle, and Rousseau, addressing their views on political philosophy, ethics, and human existence. Discussions often revolve around interpreting classical texts like Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, examining the influential ideas of figures such as Confucius and Machiavelli, and understanding the contributions of literary works and historical documents to political thought.

The podcast also encompasses conversations about literature and film, examining how these mediums reflect and influence philosophical ideas. Episodes discuss classic literary works by authors such as Shakespeare and Homer, analyzing their underlying philosophical themes and relevance to contemporary society. Likewise, discussions on films like Fritz Lang’s M highlight the intersection of cinematic art and philosophical inquiry.

Guests, including scholars and professors, regularly contribute to episodes, offering expert insights into specific topics such as the founding principles of Rome, the works of T. S. Eliot, and the political philosophy of Montesquieu. These expert-led discussions aim to make complex philosophical ideas accessible to both newcomers and seasoned listeners.

The podcast occasionally addresses current and historical events, integrating discussions on the American founding, the role of figures like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and the impact of modern political ideologies. In summary, "The New Thinkery" serves as a rich resource for exploring the depths of political philosophy, ancient and modern thought, and their cultural implications.

Episodes:

Sabrina Little on Athletics and Virtue 2024-Oct-02 52 minutes

Leo Strauss' "On the Interpretation of Genesis" 2024-Sep-25 57 minutes

Lincoln and the Founding 2024-Sep-18 48 minutes

Eric Adler on Livy's History of Rome, Book I Ch. 1-16 2024-Sep-11 61 minutes

Walter Sterling on T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" 2024-Sep-04 67 minutes

Pano Kanelos on Hamlet and the University of Austin 2024-Aug-28 65 minutes

Robert Wyllie on Understanding Byung-Chul Han 2024-Aug-21 66 minutes

Flagg Taylor on Jan Patočka's The Spiritual Person & the Intellectual 2024-Aug-14 57 minutes

Michael Davis On Greek Tragedy, and Electra 2024-Aug-07 68 minutes

Mary Nichols on Piety in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 2024-Jul-31 63 minutes

Plato's Lovers 2024-Jul-24 49 minutes

Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American Scholar 2024-Jul-17 50 minutes

CDC Reeve on Aristotle's Dialectic 2024-Jul-10 82 minutes

Paul Carrese on George Washington 2024-Jul-03 73 minutes

On Fitness 2024-Jun-26 62 minutes

Ariel Helfer on Plato's Letters 2024-Jun-19 80 minutes

Leo Strauss' What Is Political Philosophy?, Part III 2024-Jun-12 52 minutes

Leo Strauss' What is Political Philosophy?, Part II 2024-Jun-05 62 minutes

Leo Strauss' What is Political Philosophy?, Part I 2024-May-29 67 minutes

The New Thinkery at 200 2024-May-22 50 minutes

Marc Landy on America and Modernity 2024-May-15 80 minutes

Dustin Peone on Comedy and Philosophy 2024-May-08 70 minutes

Christopher Lynch on Machiavelli on War 2024-May-01 64 minutes

W. B. Allen on Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws 2024-Apr-24 62 minutes

Plato's Hipparchus 2024-Apr-17 59 minutes

Laurence Berns on Francis Bacon with Martin Yaffe and Nathan Dinneen 2024-Apr-10 70 minutes

Raúl Rodríguez on Strauss' View of Tocqueville and Nietzsche 2024-Apr-03 73 minutes

Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act V 2024-Mar-27 54 minutes

Christopher Kelly on Rousseau's Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques, Part II 2024-Mar-20 38 minutes

Christopher Kelly on Rousseau's Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques, Part I 2024-Mar-13 47 minutes

Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped ft. Tom Cleveland & James Guess 2024-Mar-06 59 minutes

Douglas Kries on Augustine City of God 2024-Feb-28 75 minutes

Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV 2024-Feb-21 51 minutes

Devin Stauffer on Leo Strauss' Natural Right & History, Chapter 5, Part 1 on Hobbes 2024-Feb-14 84 minutes

Kaishuo Chen on Confucius and Esotericism 2024-Feb-07 64 minutes

Xenophon's Apology 2024-Jan-31 53 minutes

Roundtable Discussion of Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History 2024-Jan-24 60 minutes

Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III 2024-Jan-17 50 minutes

Ronna Burger on Moses as Lawgiver and Founder 2024-Jan-10 82 minutes

Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, Chapter 3 2024-Jan-03 69 minutes

Peter J. Ahrensdorf on Homer 2023-Dec-27 76 minutes

Dickens' A Christmas Carol 2023-Dec-20 76 minutes

Eric Adler on the New Humanism 2023-Dec-13 72 minutes

Tim Burns on Leo Strauss, Part II 2023-Dec-06 58 minutes

Tim Burns on Leo Strauss, Part I 2023-Nov-29 64 minutes

On Gratitude 2023-Nov-22 72 minutes

Kafka's In the Penal Colony 2023-Nov-15 56 minutes

Musings on Plato's Symposium Panel 2023-Nov-08 66 minutes

Fritz Lang's M 2023-Nov-01 60 minutes

Stripes & Coriolanus with B.J. Dobski 2023-Oct-25 64 minutes

Hesiod's "Works and Days," Part I 2023-Oct-18 55 minutes

Hannah Arendt's "Ideology and Terror" ft. Damian Jungerman 2023-Oct-11 60 minutes

Nasser Behnegar on Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, Chapter 2 2023-Oct-04 82 minutes

Shilo Brooks on Nietzsche's "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life" 2023-Sep-27 75 minutes

Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II 2023-Sep-20 52 minutes

Alex Priou's Musings on Plato's Symposium 2023-Sep-13 60 minutes

Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act I 2023-Sep-06 58 minutes

Jacob Howland on the Crisis of Higher Education and the University of Austin 2023-Aug-30 78 minutes

Ray Bradbury's The Veldt 2023-Aug-23 46 minutes

Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology 2023-Aug-16 63 minutes

Steven Hayward on David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" 2023-Aug-09 55 minutes

An Overview of Shakespeare's Hamlet 2023-Aug-02 60 minutes

Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic 2023-Jul-26 80 minutes

E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops 2023-Jul-19 64 minutes

Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor 2023-Jul-12 53 minutes

The Declaration of Independence 2023-Jul-04 64 minutes

Strauss on Euthyphro, Part II with Dr. Hannes Kerber & Dr. Svetozar Minkov 2023-Jun-28 87 minutes

Strauss on Euthyphro, Part I with Dr. Hannes Kerber & Dr. Svetozar Minkov 2023-Jun-21 63 minutes

Aristotle on Moral Responsibility (Nicomachean Ethics Book III.1–5) 2023-Jun-14 57 minutes

Eric Adler on The Big Lebowski 2023-Jun-07 47 minutes

Ortega y Gasset on Art with Daniel McDonald 2023-May-31 69 minutes

Charlie Thomas on Plato's Female Drama 2023-May-24 77 minutes

Eric Adler on Tacitus' Germania 2023-May-17 65 minutes

Thomas Cleveland on Aristotle's Metaphysics A 1–2 2023-May-11 75 minutes

Socrates as Family Man 2023-May-03 63 minutes

Spencer Klavan on Euripides' The Bacchae 2023-Apr-26 90 minutes

The Introduction to Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind 2023-Apr-19 65 minutes

Nietzsche on the Last Man 2023-Apr-12 69 minutes

Xenophon on Hunting with Dogs 2023-Apr-05 69 minutes

Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History, Chapter 1 2023-Mar-29 67 minutes

Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion 2023-Mar-22 54 minutes

Jacob Klein's The Problem of Freedom 2023-Mar-15 58 minutes

Machiavelli's The Prince, Chapter 7 2023-Mar-08 49 minutes

Interview: Spencer Klavan on Diogenes Laërtius' The Life of Zeno 2023-Mar-01 80 minutes

Interview: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert on Lincoln's Views of Discoveries and Inventions 2023-Feb-20 60 minutes

Valentine's Day Love Poems 2023-Feb-14 49 minutes

Winston Churchill's Painting as a Pastime 2023-Feb-08 48 minutes

Aristotle's Politics 3.4 2023-Feb-01 59 minutes

Interview: Dr. Eric Adler on Plutarch's Life of Camillus 2023-Jan-25 53 minutes

Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones 2023-Jan-18 61 minutes

Interview: Samuel Stoner on Kant's What is Enlightenment? 2023-Jan-11 64 minutes

Interview: Dr. Bernard J. Dobski on Plutarch's Life of Themistocles 2023-Jan-04 65 minutes

Plato's Allegory of the Cave 2022-Dec-28 62 minutes

Interview: Dr. John Moser on It's a Wonderful Life 2022-Dec-21 61 minutes

John Locke on Property 2022-Dec-14 61 minutes

Interview: Dr. Waseem El-Rayes on Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah 2022-Dec-07 67 minutes

Interview: Lorraine Pangle on Aristotle & Natural Right 2022-Nov-30 69 minutes

Aristotle's Great Souled Man 2022-Nov-23 56 minutes

Democracy in America, Volume 2 2022-Nov-16 62 minutes

Interview: Dr. Gary Schmitt on High Noon 2022-Nov-09 64 minutes

Interview: Charles Butterworth on Al-Razi's Book of the Philosophic Life 2022-Nov-02 69 minutes

Happy Halloween from The New Thinkery! 2022-Oct-31 10 minutes

Edgar Allen Poe's Most Famous Works 2022-Oct-26 67 minutes

Rousseau on Heroic Virtue 2022-Oct-19 58 minutes

Interview: Professor Devin Stauffer on Hobbes' View of Human Nature 2022-Oct-12 65 minutes

Strauss' Natural Right and History, Part 1 2022-Oct-05 65 minutes

Interview: Tom Cleveland on Aristotle and Prophecy 2022-Sep-28 80 minutes

Interview: BJ Dobski on Thucydides' Archaeology 2022-Sep-21 80 minutes

Interview: Fereshteh Priou on Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way 2022-Sep-14 62 minutes

Interview: Damian Jungerman on the Value of Great Books 2022-Sep-07 79 minutes

Herbert Storing's Liberal Education and the Common Man 2022-Aug-31 54 minutes

Interview: Jerry Weinberger on Ben Franklin's Autobiography 2022-Aug-24 68 minutes

Plato's Republic Book IV Through 429b 2022-Aug-17 65 minutes

Interview: Professor Adam Carrington on Fort Apache 2022-Aug-10 73 minutes

Leo Strauss' Crisis of Our Time 2022-Aug-03 61 minutes

Interview: Eric Adler on Plutarch's Life of Romulus 2022-Jul-27 71 minutes

Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby 2022-Jul-20 52 minutes

Xenophon's Hiero 2022-Jul-13 67 minutes

Michael Anton on Montesquieu 2022-Jul-06 92 minutes

George Anastaplo on Television 2022-Jun-29 57 minutes

Interview: Dr. Paul Diduch on Technological Moderation 2022-Jun-22 79 minutes

Aristotle on Friendship ft. Producer Jake 2022-Jun-15 74 minutes

Plutarch's Life of Theseus 2022-Jun-08 57 minutes

Nietzsche on Truth and Lies 2022-Jun-01 56 minutes

Aristotle on Slavery 2022-May-25 56 minutes

Interview: Joshua Parens on Leo Strauss on Natural Law 2022-May-18 82 minutes

Winchester 73 | The New Thinkery Ep. 95 2022-May-11 50 minutes

The Noble Lie | The New Thinkery Ep. 94 2022-May-04 49 minutes

Interview: Steve Hayward on Weber's Politics as a Vocation 2022-Apr-27 56 minutes

Homer's Iliad, Books 1 and 2 | The New Thinkery Ep. 92 2022-Apr-20 51 minutes

Interview: Dr. Catherine Zuckert on Augustine's Confessions | The New Thinkery Ep. 91 2022-Apr-13 74 minutes

Interview: Dr. Lee Ward on Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost | The New Thinkery Ep. 90 2022-Apr-06 70 minutes

Interview: Dr. David Lowenthal on Orwell's 1984 2022-Mar-30 82 minutes

Grab Bag | The New Thinkery Ep. 88 2022-Mar-23 61 minutes

Interview: Professor James Carey on Indian Philosophy | The New Thinkery Ep. 87 2022-Mar-16 78 minutes

Plato's Republic and the Problem of Justice | The New Thinkery Ep. 86 2022-Mar-09 57 minutes

Hitchcock's Rope | The New Thinkery Ep. 85 2022-Mar-02 63 minutes

Interview: Diana Schaub on Lincoln's Lyceum Address | The New Thinkery Ep. 84 2022-Feb-23 80 minutes

Interview: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert on Lincoln's Statecraft | The New Thinkery Ep. 83 2022-Feb-16 78 minutes

Machiavelli's Four Most Excellent Princes | The New Thinkery Ep. 82 2022-Feb-09 52 minutes

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | The New Thinkery Ep. 81 2022-Feb-02 60 minutes

Anna Schmidt on Maimonides' Letter on Astrology | The New Thinkery Ep. 80 2022-Jan-26 72 minutes

Aristotle's Politics, 1.1-2 | The New Thinkery Ep. 79 2022-Jan-19 71 minutes

Leo Strauss on German Nihilism | The New Thinkery Ep. 78 2022-Jan-12 55 minutes

Plato's Republic, Book I | The New Thinkery Ep. 77 2022-Jan-05 69 minutes

Interview: Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli's Mandragola | The New Thinkery Ep. 76 2021-Dec-29 77 minutes

Hawthorne's The Christmas Banquet | The New Thinkery Ep. 75 2021-Dec-25 39 minutes

Dickens' A Christmas Carol | The New Thinkery Ep. 74 2021-Dec-22 76 minutes

Interview: Professor Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Nazism | The New Thinkery Ep. 73 2021-Dec-15 83 minutes

Interview: Dr. Christopher Burkett on Westerns | The New Thinkery Ep. 72 2021-Dec-08 81 minutes

Descartes' Discourse on Method | The New Thinkery Ep. 71 2021-Dec-01 67 minutes

Interview: Glenn Ellmers on The Soul of Politics | The New Thinkery Ep. 70 2021-Nov-24 88 minutes

Interview: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert on the Gettysburg Address | The New Thinkery Ep. 69 2021-Nov-17 82 minutes

Interview: Dr. Eric Adler on Battle of the Classics | The New Thinkery Ep. 68 2021-Nov-10 92 minutes

Introduction to Plato's Republic | The New Thinkery Ep. 67 2021-Nov-03 76 minutes

Interview: Dr. Justin Gottschalk on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | The New Thinkery Ep. 66 2021-Oct-27 64 minutes

Interview: Jan Blits on Macbeth | The New Thinkery Ep. 65 2021-Oct-20 60 minutes

Mark Twain's Extracts from Adam's Diary | The New Thinkery Ep. 64 2021-Oct-13 64 minutes

Interview: Drs. Christopher Lynch and Nathan Tarcov on The Complete Tales and Poems of Niccolò Machiavelli | The New Thinkery Ep. 63 2021-Oct-06 77 minutes

Interview: Dr. Wayne Ambler on Tacitus' Dialogue on Oratory | The New Thinkery Ep. 62 2021-Sep-29 92 minutes

Interview: Nick Buccola on Frederick Douglass | The New Thinkery Ep. 61 2021-Sep-22 76 minutes

Interview: Ben Kleinerman on the Federalist Papers | The New Thinkery Ep. 60 2021-Sep-15 57 minutes

Aristophanes' Assemblywomen | The New Thinkery Ep. 59 2021-Sep-08 85 minutes

Interview: Dr. Laurence Cooper on Alcibiades' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 58 2021-Sep-01 75 minutes

Interview: Professor Steven Smith on Oakeshott's "Political Education" | The New Thinkery Ep. 57 2021-Aug-25 57 minutes

The Death of Ivan Ilyich | The New Thinkery Ep. 56 2021-Aug-18 69 minutes

Interview: Dr. Arlene Saxonhouse on Women in Plato's Republic | The New Thinkery Ep. 55 2021-Aug-11 85 minutes

Interview: Dr. Michael Grenke on Warspeak | The New Thinkery Ep. 54 2021-Aug-04 88 minutes

Aristophanes' The Clouds | The New Thinkery Ep. 53 2021-Jul-28 76 minutes

Socrates' Speech Continued: Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part VIII | The New Thinkery Ep. 52 2021-Jul-21 81 minutes

Interview: Dr. Joshua Parens on the Philosophy of Maimonides | The New Thinkery Ep. 51 2021-Jul-14 88 minutes

Interview: Dr. Thomas Cleveland on Minos | The New Thinkery Ep. 50 2021-Jul-07 83 minutes

Interview: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert on Abraham Lincoln | The New Thinkery Ep. 49 2021-Jun-30 71 minutes

Plutarch on Coriolanus | The New Thinkery Ep. 48 2021-Jun-23 50 minutes

Plutarch on Alcibiades | The New Thinkery Ep. 47 2021-Jun-16 65 minutes

Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing | The New Thinkery Ep. 46 2021-Jun-09 79 minutes

Interview with Bill Kristol | The New Thinkery Ep. 45 2021-Jun-02 81 minutes

Conrad's Typhoon | The New Thinkery Ep. 44 2021-May-26 56 minutes

Socrates' Speech: Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part VII | The New Thinkery Ep. 43 2021-May-19 61 minutes

Interview: Professor Jeff Sikkenga on Tocqueville | The New Thinkery Ep. 42 2021-May-12 66 minutes

Interview: Dr. Charles Butterworth on Alfarabi's Book of Religion | The New Thinkery Ep. 41 2021-May-05 60 minutes

Rousseau's First Discourse Live at ACTC | The New Thinkery Ep. 40 2021-Apr-28 90 minutes

Tacitus' Argicola | The New Thinkery Ep. 39 2021-Apr-21 52 minutes

Epictetus' The Handbook | The New Thinkery Ep. 38 2021-Apr-14 43 minutes

Special Announcement: The New Thinkery LIVE this Wednesday! 2021-Apr-12 3 minutes

Interview with Professor Michael Davis on Sophocles' Electra | The New Thinkery Ep. 37 2021-Apr-07 81 minutes

Agathon’s Speech: Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part VI | The New Thinkery Ep. 36 2021-Mar-31 52 minutes

Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols | The New Thinkery Ep. 35 2021-Mar-24 61 minutes

Pericles' Funeral Oration | The New Thinkery Ep. 34 2021-Mar-17 56 minutes

Philosophy and Film 2: Love and Death (1975) | The New Thinkery Ep. 33 2021-Mar-10 46 minutes

Aristophanes’ Speech: Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part V | The New Thinkery Ep. 32 2021-Mar-03 49 minutes

Interview with Professor Flagg Taylor on "Loss of the Creature" | The New Thinkery Ep. 31 2021-Feb-24 57 minutes

Interview with Professor Steve Hayward on Executive Power | The New Thinkery Ep. 30 2021-Feb-17 62 minutes

Francis Bacon's New Atlantis | The New Thinkery Ep. 29 2021-Feb-10 76 minutes

Interview with Professor Jan Blits on Shakespeare's Coriolanus | The New Thinkery Ep. 28 2021-Feb-03 67 minutes

Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books | The New Thinkery Ep. 27 2021-Jan-27 54 minutes

Jacob Klein's The Idea of Liberal Education | The New Thinkery Ep. 26 2021-Jan-20 85 minutes

William James' The Moral Equivalent of War | The New Thinkery Ep. 25 2021-Jan-13 48 minutes

Interview with Professor Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Strauss | The New Thinkery Ep. 24 2021-Jan-06 68 minutes

Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part IV: Eryximachus' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 23 2020-Dec-30 57 minutes

Dickens' A Christmas Carol | The New Thinkery Ep. 22 2020-Dec-23 72 minutes

Aristotle on Virtue | The New Thinkery Ep. 21 2020-Dec-16 62 minutes

Winston Churchill on the Modern World | The New Thinkery Ep. 20 2020-Dec-09 57 minutes

Interview with Professor Robert Faulkner on Francis Bacon | The New Thinkery Ep. 19 2020-Dec-02 66 minutes

Special Edition: The New Thankery 2020-Nov-26 14 minutes

Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus | The New Thinkery Ep. 18 2020-Nov-25 72 minutes

Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part III: Pausanias' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 17 2020-Nov-18 53 minutes

Francis Bacon's Great Instauration | The New Thinkery Ep. 16 2020-Nov-11 55 minutes

The Nature of Foundings ft. James Ceaser | The New Thinkery Ep. 15 2020-Nov-04 61 minutes

Shakespeare's Macbeth | The New Thinkery Ep. 14 2020-Oct-28 72 minutes

Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part II: Phaedrus' Speech | The New Thinkery Ep. 13 2020-Oct-21 55 minutes

Aristotle on Courage | The New Thinkery Ep. 12 2020-Oct-14 66 minutes

Philosophy & Film 1: Zulu (1964) | The New Thinkery Ep. 11 2020-Oct-07 53 minutes

Analyzing Plato's Symposium, Part I | The New Thinkery Ep. 10 2020-Sep-30 67 minutes

Interview with Prof. Robert C. Bartlett | The New Thinkery Ep. 9 2020-Sep-23 57 minutes

Plato's Gorgias | The New Thinkery Ep. 8 2020-Sep-16 61 minutes

Interview with Professor Charles Butterworth | The New Thinkery Ep. 7 2020-Sep-09 77 minutes

Teaching Political Philosophy | The New Thinkery Ep. 6 2020-Sep-02 69 minutes

Shakespeare's Measure for Measure | The New Thinkery Ep. 5 2020-Aug-26 70 minutes

Reading Plato | The New Thinkery Ep. 4 2020-Aug-17 70 minutes

A Close Reading of Machiavelli's Prince Ch. 15 | The New Thinkery Ep. 3 2020-Aug-12 76 minutes

Machiavelli's The Prince and Modernity | The New Thinkery Ep. 2 2020-Aug-05 66 minutes

Averroes and al-Ghazali | The New Thinkery Ep. 1 2020-Jul-27 67 minutes

Welcome to The New Thinkery 2020-Jul-22 3 minutes