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Latest Episodes

Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)
April 18, 2024

How does the past live on within our experience of the present? And how does our decision to speak about or write down our recollections of how things were change our understanding of those memories--how does it change us in the present? Asking those ques

Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert
April 18, 2024

Plutarch is one of history's most influential authors: his insights were foundational to thinkers ranging from William Shakespeare to Alexander Hamilton, Nietzsche to Montesquieu. Yet, today his writings have fallen out of favor, in part because the genre

"Righteousness" (tzedek) in Metzora
April 18, 2024

Leviticus 14:1-15:32

The Things We Didn't Know: A Conversation with Elba Iris Pérez
April 18, 2024

A Conversation with Elba Iris Prez

Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
April 17, 2024

An interview with Philip Freeman

Words of Attack: Rhetoric Against Liberal Democratic Values with James McAdams
April 17, 2024

With a presidential campaign in the US just around the corner and populist and authoritarian thinkers gaining broader platforms, University of Notre Dame political scientist A. James McAdams shines a light on the terms being used today by the Far Right to