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This week, Samantha Whitley joins the show to discuss a strange graduation season and how the class of 2021 and 2020 experienced their respective senior years.

At 22 minutes, we discuss study away at Furman, how its changing, and why students, parents & alumni should make their voice heard before its too late.

This week the crew is joined by Drs. Ben and Jenna Storey. The Storeys are professors of political philosophy at Furman, directors of the Tocqueville Fellows Program, and authors of the new book: Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment. We discuss how they came to write a book on restlessness, what Montaigne, Pascal, and Rousseau think about human happiness, and the way that Tocqueville might help us live vertically in a horizontal world.

This week the crew is joined by Dr. Brandon Inabinet, an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Furman who helped lead the Seeking Abraham Project. We discussed how the Seeking Abraham Report got started, the challenges it faced in exploring Furman's past, and the recommendations it made that are changing Furman's present including the recent unveiling of the Joseph Vaughn Plaza.

This week, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has presented unique challenges to the mental health of college students. We sit down with Tom Baez and and Allyson Brathwaite-Gardner, Director and Associate Director of Furman's Counseling Center, to discuss the difficulties students face, the resources available to them, and how students can access the help they need.

This week, the crew is joined by Beth Bleed '13. Bleed is a doctor currently working towards her pediatric intensivist specialty. We discuss how the pandemic has impacted her work, affected the medical field more broadly, and potentially changed practices for good.

The Horsemen are back and better than ever. This week, we take on vaccines and geopolitics. We discuss whether colleges like Furman should require the COVID-19 vaccines, assess the United States' vaccine rollout so far, and look at what's going on with the rest of the world regarding the pandemic. We also ponder whether the United States, the EU, and our allies should approach China as a rival, partner, or both.

Nate Hochman is a senior at Colorado College studying political philosophy. He is also an accomplished writer, with work published in City Journal, National Review, and The Spectator USA. This week, he joins the crew to discuss the liberal arts' last stand. We ask what liberal education is, examine how it is under attack, and think about what can be done to save it.

Anna Sugg has worked at the intersection of politics and media ever since she graduated from Furman University in 2012. This week, she joins the crew to share her experiences and discuss how the media has changed over the past decade. We explore the undercurrents that were changing the media long before the 2016 election and examine how Trump's presidency accelerated some of those trends.

Andy Lewis, Lead Teaching Pastor at Mitchell Road PCA, joins the show to discuss the state of the white evangelical church, the division his congregation faced during the BLM protests and 2020 election, and how the church has a mission much greater than any political party.

The Horsemen are back and better than ever. This week, we take on culture. We discuss whether a liberal spirit really dominates American institutions, if the left is simply better at "culture" than the right, why some attempts at conservative culture make us cringe, and what good conservative culture might actually look like.