The hatred of logos

The hatred of logos

D. C. Schindler draws on Plato to argue that in its very form, social media evidences a general contempt for logos — reason and language — which defines man. (26 minutes)
Politics and the good

Politics and the good

FROM VOL. 160
D. C. Schindler argues that political order cannot be disentangled from the social, and that fundamental questions of what humans are and what the good is cannot be bracketed from politics. (30 minutes)
The collapse of public life

The collapse of public life

FROM VOL. 154
D. C. Schindler explains how liberalism sought to make way for individuals to function together without any orientation to an explicit common good. (37 minutes)
Truth, goodness, and beauty (and why they matter)

Truth, goodness, and beauty (and why they matter)

FROM VOL. 147
Philosopher D. C. Schindler examines how postmodernism poses a unique threat to our sense of an interior self. (28 minutes)
The interiority of reality

The interiority of reality

FROM VOL. 132
D. C. Schindler discusses the thought of contemporary German philosopher Robert Spaemann, and his defense of a purposeful structure in nature. (28 minutes))
Speaking the word in love

Speaking the word in love

In this lecture, D. C. Schindler examines core insights from Ferdinand Ulrich on the central vocation of man and the meaning of being. (32 minutes)
The downward spiral of all technocracies

The downward spiral of all technocracies

Andrew Willard Jones explains the two paths that exist with the development of new technologies: one which leads to an expansion of the humane world and one which exploits and truncates both Creation and humanity. (65 minutes)
Sacramental correspondence

Sacramental correspondence

FROM VOL. 51
Poet Dana Gioia discusses the state of contemporary poetry and the sacramental relationship between language and reality. (15 minutes)
Making contact with reality

Making contact with reality

FROM VOL. 139
Esther Lightcap Meek discusses the realism of philosopher and chemist Michael Polanyi. (23 minutes)
Knowing the world through the body

Knowing the world through the body

FROM VOL. 76
Professor Martin X. Moleski explains why Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) left his career in science to become a philosopher. (16 minutes)
Impact of "infotainment" on community

Impact of “infotainment” on community

Neil Gabler and C. John Sommerville discuss how the mentalities conveyed by our experience with communications media work against the nurturing of community. (36 minutes)
Gratitude, vitalism, and the timid rationalist

Gratitude, vitalism, and the timid rationalist

In this lecture, Matthew Crawford draws a distinction between an orientation toward receiving life as gift and a timid and cramped rationalism that views man as an object to be synthetically remade. (52 minutes)
"A sign of contradiction"

“A sign of contradiction”

In this lecture, Daniel Gibbons compares and contrasts understandings of sacramental poetics proposed by Augustine, Aquinas, and Sydney. (36 minutes)
Education that counters alienation

Education that counters alienation

In this lecture, Jeanne Schindler explores how digital technologies warp not only education but our experience of being human. (30 minutes)
Education vs. conditioning

Education vs. conditioning

Education necessarily involves metaphysical and theological preconditions, and Michael Hanby argues that our current education crisis is a result of society rejecting these preconditions. (41 minutes)
Education as a pilgrimage and a mystery

Education as a pilgrimage and a mystery

In this lecture, James Matthew Wilson gives a compelling argument for understanding the role of a literary or poetic education as an immersion of the whole being in truth and beauty. (43 minutes)
Submission to mathematical truth

Submission to mathematical truth

In this lecture, Carlo Lancellotti argues that integration of the moral, cognitive, and aesthetic aspects of mathematics is needed in a robust liberal arts mathematics curriculum. (25 minutes)
A prophetic "wake-up call"

A prophetic “wake-up call”

In this 2024 lecture honoring the bicentennial of George MacDonald’s birth, Malcolm Guite explores MacDonald’s power to awaken readers’ spirits and effect in them a change of consciousness. (59 minutes)
Victorian ideas about belief and doubt

Victorian ideas about belief and doubt

FROM VOL. 148
Timothy Larsen situates George MacDonald within a Victorian understanding of faith and doubt. (17 minutes)
The gift of meaningful work

The gift of meaningful work

In this lecture, D. C. Schindler argues that genuine work is inherently meaningful and facilitates an encounter with reality and therefore, ultimately, with God. (36 minutes)
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