In this episode, I talk with Ashley Fitzgerald about how we can maintain a positive orientation toward life in the face of modern challenges, about community and exactly what doomer optimism is.

In this episode, I talk to professor and writer Duncan Reyburn about Rene Girard, the human condition and why we do what we do.

In this episode, I talk with writer and teacher Kale Zelden about teaching, the crisis of meaning and the role of Great Books.

In this episode, I talk with Twitter personality Christiana Miller about gender and shame.

In this episode, I talk with writer and Twitter personality Scott Raines about Russian literature, music and the nature of dreams.

In this episode, I talk with plumber and theologian Nathaniel Marshall about his vocational journey, Basil the Great and garbage disposals.

In this episode, I talk to Jeremy Wayne Tate, founder of the Classic Learning Test, an alternative to the SAT and the ACT.

In this episode, I talk with Stephen Lum about 19th century Scottish writer George MacDonald.

In this episode, I talk with Joy Marie Clarkson about how the metaphors we use to understand ourselves influence the patterns of out lives.

In this episode, I speak to Dovid and Miriam Feldman about the essential ingredients for a great marriage, the excesses of the trad movement and the damage done by the Red Pill.