This podcasts is "about the Great Books and the liberal arts," something that sets The After-Dinner Scholar apart from other audio blogs from Wyoming Catholic Collage.Case in point, the college has l

The number of integers (1, 2, 3, 4, and so on) is infinite. And oddly enough so is the number of even integers (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and beyond). Meaning that the number of even integers is equal to the nu

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures, remarks Anne Eliot in Jane Austens Persuasion. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives

While you and I sit by a delightful fireor at least (assuming you live in a cool climate)delightful central heating, our Wyoming Catholic College freshmen are spending a few nights in their Quinzees

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This podcast was posted on December 26, the day after Christmas. It was the commemoration of St. Stephens martyrdom described in Acts chapter 7. On the 27th, we remember St. John, the only apostle wh

During the first weeks of Advent, the Church directs our attention to the second advent of Christ, that day when he will come again in glory to gather his people into his resurrection, remake this tir

The music coming over the airfor those who still listen to the radioand in various Christmas mixes from Pandora, Apple Music, Spotify, and so on tends to be a wild and wooly mix including everything

Virgil's Aeneid tells us about the founding of Rome and begins with the destruction of Troy at the end of the Trojan War, the war recounted in The Iliad. As the Greeks burn and sack Troy, Aeneas escap

Last Sunday was the Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe which wasinstituted by Pope Pius XI with his 1925 encyclical Quas Primas (In the First) as a response to those bitter enmities and