The New Thinkery

Walter Sterling on T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"


Listen Later

This week, the guys are joined by Walter Sterling, the freshly minted president of St. John's College in Santa Fe to discuss one of the twentieth century's most important poems, T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." The group work their way through the work's oppressive density and prose to get at the crucial themes and messages underlying it all. Plus: a tangential discussion about Saint John's College and Sterling's background with the college.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The New ThinkeryBy The New Thinkery

  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9

4.9

237 ratings


More shows like The New Thinkery

View all
Philosophize This! by Stephen West

Philosophize This!

15,241 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

113,468 Listeners

Classical Stuff You Should Know by A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee

Classical Stuff You Should Know

727 Listeners

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat by New York Times Opinion

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

7,238 Listeners

The Auron MacIntyre Show by Blaze Podcast Network

The Auron MacIntyre Show

509 Listeners

The Podcast of Jewish Ideas by Torah in Motion

The Podcast of Jewish Ideas

50 Listeners

Subversive Orthodoxy by Travis Mullen

Subversive Orthodoxy

11 Listeners