Chris Swanson returns to the podcast's first novel: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. This episode also features a crash course on Russian naming conventions, a primer on Kierkegaard's Stages of Life, and a discussion on why all happy families are alike.

Eliot Grasso returns to discuss Genesis 1-4, why such a short passage is so complex, and some dynamics at work in interpretation.

Naomi Rinehold is back to talk about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics--but this time, it's from a Great Conversation reading, and it's about Justice.

Charley Dewberry starts this new season by discussing prehistory, the Bronze Age, and how surprisingly "advanced" ancient civilization was.

Chris Swanson wraps up the podcast's second year by talking about Christian Existentialism.

Naomi Rinehold discusses a lecture series delivered by C.S. Lewis, the Old Testament idea of sorcery, and sin mycorrhiza.

Dr. Eliot Grasso joins the podcast to discuss Jacques Ellul's Propaganda, why the nature of propaganda is so often misunderstood, and how loving our enemies can break the monster's glass spine.

Eliot quotes from the following works:

Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. Translated by John Wilkinson, Vintage Books, 1964. 

Ellul, Jacques. Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Atitudes. Vintage Books, 1973. 

Charley Dewberry discusses E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful, how not to fall off horses, and how we can choose to not serve Mammon when we have interstate highways.

Chris Swanson joins the podcast to discuss Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the difference between paradigms and worldviews, and why the scientific community has less dissent than other academic disciplines.

[Producer's Note: I was told I had posted the wrong file Friday afternoon. I corrected the episode file, but folks who use Apple Podcasts informed me that the problem was not fixed. This is my duct-tape-and-bailing-wire attempt to get the correct episode up for our Apple Podcasts listeners. I'll do my best in the future not to make this same mistake again.

P.S. If you don't listen on Apple Podcasts, you can go ahead and mark this one as "listened" or "played".]

Chris Swanson joins the podcast to discuss Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the difference between paradigms and worldviews, and why the scientific community has less dissent than other academic disciplines.