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Introductory Lectures on the Great Books
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The Case for Imperialism | Machiavelli's Foreign Policy Explained
Lecture on Machiavelli's Foreign Policy & Case for Conquest
Jan 27
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Answering Tough Questions on Machiavelli’s Ethics | Q&A
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Nov 29, 2025
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Why Good People Make Terrible Leaders | Machiavelli's Ethics Explained
A lecture on Machiavelli's ethics
Nov 28, 2025
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Your Face Shapes Your Destiny | Shelley's Frankenstein Explained
Watch now (19 mins) | The True Horror of Frankenstein
Oct 31, 2025
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Expert Interviews on the Great Books
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The Overwhelming Evidence for Miracles Suppressed By Authorities | Princeton's Dale Allison
An Interview with Dale Allison on Miracles
Feb 9
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The Struggle for Recognition | Axel Honneth
Watch now | An interview with Axel Honneth on Recognition Theory
Feb 2
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Christology, Apocalypse, Ressurection | Dale Allison on the New Testament
An Interview with Dale Allison on New Testament Scholarship
Jan 18
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Reject Globalism, Embrace Patriotism | Maurizio Viroli
Between Nationalism and Globalism
Nov 7, 2025
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Philosophy x AI
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The Incredible Results of AI Learning | A New Philosophy of Education
An Interview with MacKenzie Price on AI Learning
Jan 9
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The One Thing You Must Never Outsource to AI | Brendan McCord
An Interview with Brendan McCord on Autonomy and AI.
Sep 12, 2025
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44:10
Debate: Can AI Write a Great Book?
A panel at St. John's discussing AI and the humanities.
Aug 8, 2025
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The Signs that AI is Conscious | Imperial's Murray Shanahan
Watch now | An interview with Murray Shanahan on philosophy and AI consciousness.
May 10, 2025
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Philosophy x Entrepreneurship
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The Chinese Billionaire Paying People to Have Kids | James Liang on Demography
An Interview with James Liang on Demography
Feb 21
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The Incredible Results of AI Learning | A New Philosophy of Education
An Interview with MacKenzie Price on AI Learning
Jan 9
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How a $17B Investor Beat Wall Street By Reading Shakespeare | Jim O'Shaughnessy
An interview with Jim O'Shaughnessy
Jan 3
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Capital is Cheap, This is The Last Scarce Resource | USV’s Albert Wenger
An interview with USV's Albert Wenger
Nov 23, 2025
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Mimetic Theory
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Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Christianity exposed the injustice of scapegoating and, in doing so, robbed us of the cathartic tools which early human societies used to contain and…
Dec 31, 2022
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Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Rescued by Christianity, modernity is distinctly different than the violent, deceitful, and stagnant societies of yore.
Dec 29, 2022
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Lecture V: The Christian Revelation | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
For Girard, Christianity is radically different from all other religions in one crucial aspect: it takes the side of the innocent victim and, in doing…
Dec 24, 2022
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Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Starting from lecture IV, we will move away from psychology and into Girard’s history, beginning with the very first human societies.
Dec 21, 2022
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