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The New Thinkery is a podcast devoted to political philosophy and its history, along with its many guises in literature, film, and human experience generally. Named after Socrates’ infamous “Thinkery” in Aristophanes’ Clouds, The New Thinkery strikes a balance between the seriousness of academia and the playfulness of casual conversation among friends.
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Welcome to Ascend! We are a weekly Great Books podcast hosted by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan. What are the Great Books? The Great Books are the most impactful texts that have shaped Western civilization. They include ancients like Homer, Plato, St. Augustine, Dante, and St. Thomas Aquinas, and also moderns like Machiavelli, Locke, and Nietzsche. We will explore the Great Books with the light of the Catholic intellectual tradition. Why should we read the Great Books? Everyone is ...
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Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses. We don’t just read the great books - we live them. Together we’ll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. We’ll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.
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Boring Books for Bedtime is a weekly sleep podcast in which we calmly, quietly read something rather boring to silence the brain chatter keeping you awake. Think Aristotle, Thoreau, and whoever wrote the 1897 Sears Catalog—mostly nonfiction, mostly old, a perfect blend of vaguely-but-not-too interesting. If you're on Team Sleepless, lie back, take a deep breath, and let us read you to rest.
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Machiavelli has created a ruthless guide on how to rule the country in his volume "The Prince". The book is dedicated to Lorenzo De Medici, the ruler of Florence. The author explains in simple language about the nature of great men and the characters of the government. The first chapter gives an outline of the book discussing various styles of ruling as a prince, character traits that a ruler should have and the political situation of Italy in the 16th century. The book is composed of 26 cha ...
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Truth, Freedom and Balance!
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The classical education you never knew you were missing. Join scholar and writer Spencer Klavan on a tour through the great works of the West. In a world gone mad, we're not alone: the great men and women who went before us have wisdom to guide us. With their help, we can recover truth, beauty, and the stuff that matters.
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Weekly audio essays from leading experts. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. We probe beyond the hive mind of Washington conventional wisdom on national security and foreign affairs.
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Engelsberg Ideas podcasts bring together leading writers, thinkers and historians to discuss the biggest issues facing the world today. You’ll find calm conversations and thought-provoking analysis.
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Praedicare - “to preach”… a podcast of homilies by Fr. Matt Nagle, a Roman Catholic Priest serving as pastor of Mater Dei parish in Topeka, Kansas.
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Book Swap is a new podcast from Paperclip, about a husband and wife that hate each other's books. Jake likes Machiavelli. Bekah likes Audre Lorde. Let's call the whole thing off.
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Prefer your books in comedy form, but still want to sound smart at parties? We got you. Discover the hilarity hidden in the classics with new episodes every other Thursday.
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Do you ever get that sinking feeling, the one where you feel you only get half the story? Or even a different story altogether. Hello and welcome to the Red Pill Diary. I’m Lewis, and I will be your host. So, ready or not, let’s flip the switch and shed some light on it.
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Powerful conversations and interviews about real life psychology, philosophy, psychedelics, spirituality, social dynamics and much more. Our mission is to entertain, provoke, inform, and make you question everything you think you know. Have you ever been on the wrong end of “office politics”? Or lost out to less talented people who are better at “playing the game”? Join us as we our explore Robert Greene’s provocative and compelling study of the 48 Laws of Power, in which he lays bare the ps ...
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The Renaissance Game Podcast is dedicated to discussing the online game, Renaissance. It is a real-time, menu-driven, text-based, multi-player historical game of strategy. Each player plays the role of a historical based family based in Renaissance Italy. Wes Clark, your host, plays the Sforza family, which controls the Duchy of Milan and its territories. He discusses the player interactions, game play, diplomacy, intrigue and more! You are encouraged to click the link to the game site and g ...
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Travel around the globe and learn about different historical events.
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Digital Village Network presents The Digital Village Show! Learn about all of the latest business tech trends and news, delivered right to your ear. Meet some of the greatest minds in business driving and leading technology shifts in business and understand how you can utilise technology to benefit your organisation and your customers.
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some basic things with a basic girl
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PODOPTICON is a politics, history, and philosophy podcast. Topics will range. Subscribe wherever you get podcasts.
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Podcasts, Comedy, Music, Improv Shows include; Last Exit to Riverdale Space Detective A Podcast For... (Citation Needed) The Springfield Files
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Hosted by Ty Kramer-Watson Welcome back to 'A Social Experiment,' a show covering all things human philosophy. Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Hegel and many other philosophers dealing in the intricacies of human existence will be featured in this podcast. Join us, and semper audire. RoRo & co.™ Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asocialexperiment/support
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This podcast explores the vernacular reception of Aristotle and his works in Renaissance Italy as part of the ERC-Funded Vernacular Aristotelianism project (PI: Marco Sgarbi) at the University of Warwick (UK), and at the University of Ca' Foscari in Venice (Italy). The podcast is produced, recorded, edited, and hosted by Dr. Bryan Brazeau, a member of the project at the University of Warwick. For more on the project and the podcast: http://www.tiny.cc/ercaristotle
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Alexander Lee on why Machiavelli wrote The Prince
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If we want to understand the ‘meaning’ of The Prince, we should start with Machiavelli himself. Read by Helen Lloyd. Image: A statue of Niccolo Machiavelli in Florence, Italy. Credit: Goran Bogicevic / Alamy Stock PhotoBy EI Weekly Listen
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EI Weekly Listen — Alexander Lee on why Machiavelli wrote The Prince
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If we want to understand the ‘meaning’ of The Prince, we should start with Machiavelli himself. Read by Helen Lloyd. Image: A statue of Niccolo Machiavelli in Florence, Italy. Credit: Goran Bogicevic / Alamy Stock PhotoBy Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts
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NEWSFLASH!-MURDER, Madness and Machiavelli
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WARNING ⚠️- Passion and Truth ALERT! Small Children Slaughtered in Southport! Was This done by an Insane Man already WELL KNOWN to the Authorities!!?- If so- WHY was this Atrocity ALLOWED!? Is Race Hate Being used YET AGAIN to Keep the People at EACH OTHERS Throats, While Those ‘Back-Stage’ Pull the Strings!!??…
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Part 4 of the preaching series on the Eucharist 20th Sun Ordinary Time Year B 8/18/2024
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Let’s continue a month of requests from our Patreon raffle winners with more about the operation of agricultural machinery. This time, some Q&A and a surprisingly excellent scientific explanation of the states of matter. Steamy! Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https:…
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EI Weekly Listen — Ali Ansari on the secret to Cyrus the Great’s success
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Few ancient monarchs have enjoyed such a consistent positive reputation as Cyrus the Great. Perhaps it’s time to become reacquainted. Read by Helen Lloyd. Image: The Tomb of Cyrus, Iran. Photograph taken in 1898. Credit: Penta Springs Limited / Alamy Stock PhotoBy Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts
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Ali Ansari on the secret to Cyrus the Great’s success
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Few ancient monarchs have enjoyed such a consistent positive reputation as Cyrus the Great. Perhaps it’s time to become reacquainted. Read by Helen Lloyd. Image: The Tomb of Cyrus, Iran. Photograph taken in 1898. Credit: Penta Springs Limited / Alamy Stock PhotoBy EI Weekly Listen
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Bananas, Guatemala and Bernay - A Tall Yarn - E11
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Spin. Do you know it when you see it? Some can tell a tall tale, and everyone believes it. It's one of the other oldest professions. What were the intended and unintended consequences? Come on in and join me on my journey in the Red Pill Diary. I have the lights on for you.By Lewis Harper
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Eric welcomes historian Timothy Ryback, the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in the Hague. He has been Director and Vice President of the Salzburg Seminar and a lecturer in History at Harvard University and is the author of Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). Th…
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EI Portraits — Andrew Wilton on Amanda McKittrick Ros, the Florence Foster Jenkins of the romantic novel
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Andrew Wilton profiles Amanda McKittrick Ros, a late Victorian novelist admired in her day but now largely forgotten. Read by Sebastian Brown. Image: A typical late Victorian scene. Credit: Dave Rheaume / Alamy Stock PhotoBy Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts
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Flagg Taylor on Jan Patočka's The Spiritual Person & the Intellectual
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This week, Alex and Greg delve into Jan Patočka's 1975 essay "The Spiritual Person & the Intellectual," exploring its profound insights on the nature of human existence and the role of intellectuals in society. Joined by Flagg Taylor of Skidmore College, the group examine Patočka's challenge to modernity and his vision for a more spiritually ground…
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Is the Iliad just a cautionary tale about toxic masculinity? Or is there something deeper at work in Achilles' murderous rage? To really understand the poem, you have to understand--and internalize--what it means to live in an honor culture, and to seek justice in a universe that makes no guarantees. After listening to this episode you can understa…
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A homily for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B
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The Odyssey Book Six: The Princess and the Stranger
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Dcn. Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan are joined by Eli Stone, formerly of the TU Great Books Honors College and now with Holy Family Classical School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to discuss BOOK SIX of the Odyssey: The Princess and the Stranger. Check us out at thegreatbookspodcast.com. From the guide: 32. What happens in book six? Athena inspires Nausica…
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Let’s continue a month of requests from our Patreon raffle winners with more about the physical characteristics of animal classes. This time, we learn about camels, chameleons, and the totally-not-made-up manticore. Science! Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://ww…
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What a time to be alive. New Euripides just dropped! Results are pouring in not only from the AI project that's unearthing new passages from the charred scrolls of Herculaneum, but also from the good old-fashioned method of leafing through mounds of old scrolls. Some of it is directly related to everything we've been talking about in Homer and the …
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EI Weekly Listen — Lucy Ward on the invention of Catherine the Great
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Catherine II’s inoculation against smallpox was an extraordinary act of political self-creation. Read by Helen Lloyd. Image: A portrait of Catherine the Great (1729-1796) by Alexey Antropov. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock PhotoBy EI Weekly Listen
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EI Weekly Listen — Lucy Ward on the invention of Catherine the Great
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Catherine II’s inoculation against smallpox was an extraordinary act of political self-creation. Read by Helen Lloyd. Image: A portrait of Catherine the Great (1729-1796) by Alexey Antropov. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock PhotoBy Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts
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Hostages, Assassinations, and the Future of National Defense
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Eric and Eliot discuss the multinational hostage return deal with Russia and talk about what it reveals about the Russia and the Putin regime, the diplomatic skill in pulling it off and the moral calculus between the imperative of getting wrongly accused American citizens home and the danger of political moral hazard by encouraging Putin to take mo…
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Begins: Flavor-Blasting a Little Pilgrim Boy
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We’re back, with Shakespeare’s comedy classic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Basically, four young Athenians with romance problems wander into the woods and get messed with by a bunch of fairies - you know the drill. It’s a good time, you’ll love it. (Fun fact: Jackie once acted in this play! Ten imaginary points if you guess as which character.) Jack…
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EI Talks... the atomic human with Neil D. Lawrence
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Neil D. Lawrence, inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge and author of The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI, joins the EI team to challenge received wisdom on our AI future. Engelsberg Ideas is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit. EI Talks... is …
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Spiritual Intuitions: Pawns in ‘The Game’
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WARNING!- Only For those of STRONG Mind, Spirit and Will, who SEEK a New Way! Do You have the Soul of a SPARTAN… or are you a Sheep!? Do you seek Equality, Freedom and Justice, and are you Brave enough to look in the ‘Mirror’ and CHANGE!?By Stormboy
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Michael Davis On Greek Tragedy, and Electra
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This week, the guys delve into the rich world of Greek tragedy with professor Michael Davis from Sarah Lawrence College. The group explore the themes of fate, justice, and human nature as discussed in Davis' latest book, Electras: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Focusing on the powerful narratives of the Electra plays by these tragedians, they…
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Choose Your Fighter: Achilles as a Manly Archetype
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The game is on, Helen is abducted, and now it's time to gather the Greeks for war. There are lots of stories about how the Achaean forces made their way to Troy, and some of them--like the story of the Achilles heel--are permanently associated in the popular imagination with Homer's stories. But how many of them are actually in the Iliad? And what'…
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The Odyssey Book Five: Calypso's Island with Rewire the West
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Dcn. Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan are joined by Evan Amato of Rewire the West to discuss Book Five of Odyssey: Odysseus escapes Calypso's Island. Check out thegreatbookspodcast.com for a written guide to the Odyssey. A couple questions from the guide: 28. What happens in book five? King Odysseus is trapped on Calypso’s island. Zeus, at Athena’…
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What Does "This Is My Body" Mean? (Words, Words, Words 20)
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Time's up! I gave you a weekend extension on the first-ever Young Heretics homework assignment, but now it's time to review some of the responses that came in. From a purely grammatical perspective, it turns out to be one of the most fascinating sentences in the English language, and the grammar actually has a little bit to say about the theology o…
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The History of Bread from Prehistoric to Modern Times, by John Ashton, Part 5
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Let’s kick off a month of requests from our Patreon raffle winners with more about the delicious staff of life. This time, bread baking for (19th century) beginners, yeasty science, and the complexities of communion wafers. Tasty! Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: http…
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If They Don't Have a Crisis, You Just Create One for Them - That'll Show 'Em Who's Boss - E10
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Do you ever wonder how things go sideways in the world sometimes? Well, a lot of times. Even today. History has an answer for you, and it's blunt. Many times, it's not what you would expect. Come on in and join us. I turned the lights on for you.By Lewis Harper
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The Mystery of the Real Presence: Eucharistic Homily Series Part 2 of 5
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A homily for the 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B
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Paul Nitze: National Security's Forgotten Man
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Eric and Eliot host James Graham Wilson, an historian in the Department of State's Historian's Office to discuss his new book America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security From Roosevelt to Reagan. They discuss Nitze's background as an America First supporter between the wars, his anti-Semitism and his family's connection to the Black To…
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EI Portraits — Rana Mitter on Tsiang Tingfu, pre-revolutionary China’s last bridge with the West
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Rana Mitter profiles Tsiang Tingfu, the American-educated diplomat and historian, who sought Chinese national revival on cosmopolitan lines. Read by Sebastian Brown. Image: Tsiang Tingfu raises his arm to veto a proposal introduced by the Soviet Union to the UN. Credit: SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo…
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Mary Nichols on Piety in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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Join the guys this week as they explore the nuanced concept of piety in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics with esteemed scholar Mary Nichols. Nichols is Professor Emerita of Political Science at Baylor University, where she taught from 2004-2018, and brings her profound insights and expertise to this rich discussion. Delve into the philosophical depth…
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NEWSFLASH!: Religion, Trans-Nonsense and The Olympics
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WARNING ⚠️ …NOT For the Easily Offended!!… WHY are Humans SO Easy to Manipulate!!!? What IS ‘Woke’ REALLY!!? Has Religion been TWISTED since DAY 1, just to Control you and make you KNEEL to the Annunaki!!?By Stormboy
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Villain Origin Story: The Judgment of Paris
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Stop me if you've heard this one: guy walks into a bar...and his head is an orange. If you know, you know. If you don't know, let me tell you how my favorite joke is also a perfect foil for the story that started it all in the Homeric universe, the Judgment of Paris. In hindsight it's pretty clear that Paris could have navigated the situation a lit…
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The Odyssey Book Four: The King & Queen of Sparta
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This week Adam Minihan returns to discuss Book Four of the Odyssey with Father Bonaventure, OP - a Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Joseph. The out our website for a 50+ page guide to the Odyssey. 23. What happens in book four? Telemachus arrives in Sparta to find King Menelaus hosting a “double-wedding feast;” as Menelaus’ daughter is marryi…
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The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell, Part 4
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Let’s relax and sleep with more about Einstein’s theories of relativity, how geometry gets messy on a sphere, the validity of measuring with eels, and a bit about Pythagoras, who feared beans. Who knew? Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5k…
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Eucharist Preaching Series part 1: Introduction. John 6, The Last Supper and the Mockery at the Olympics.
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Spiritual Intuitions: ‘A Prison Without Bars’
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How are You SO Easily Controlled by the Powers that be? Do Alien Races Have Passports, Get Married, Go on Holiday??! How can You CHANGE the WORLD… and are You More Powerful than you can Imagine!?By Stormboy
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It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word "Is" Is (Words, Words, Words 19)
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I always say I don't want to step on any theological land mines. Then somebody tosses me a juicy theological question and it's like...LEEEEROOOOOOOOYYYYYYY JEENNNKINNNNS. Actually today's question is mostly about grammar, but it's also about transubstantiation and somehow also, the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Basically it's "what does 'is' mean?" And …
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We’re Here to Keep You Safe and Secure. Well, It Depends. Let Me Check on That - E9
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Do you know the best place to hide something or someone? Despite an ocean of information, we must be willing to look if we seek truth. Many times, it hides in plain sight. I have the lights on. Come on in and join us.By Lewis Harper
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