The After Dinner Scholar

The After Dinner Scholar


Latest Episodes

Giving Thanks with President Kyle Washut
November 21, 2023

The great Roman statesman and orator, Marcus Tulius Cicero said:In truth while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than being and appearing

Captain Ahab and ”Moby Dick” with Dr. Virginia Arbery
November 14, 2023

In Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, we meet Captain Ahab for the first time long after the Pequod has left Nantucket. There was, says Melvilles Ishmael, an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate

”The Merchant of Venice” with Dr. Adam Cooper
November 07, 2023

Thequalityofmercyisnotstrained.ItdroppethasthegentlerainfromheavenUpontheplacebeneath.Itistwiceblest:Itblessethhimthatgivesandhimthattakes.Tismightiestinthemightiest;

”Leisure the Basis of Culture” with Dr. Michael Bolin
October 31, 2023

Once every semester at Wyoming Catholic College, we hold an All-School Seminar. For the fall seminar, a week ago, all of our students and faculty read and discussed Piepers Leisure: The Basis of Cult

Science and Scientific Knowing with Dr. Scott Olsson
October 24, 2023

We're regularly told that the only kind of knowing of which we can be certain is "scientific" knowing. What does that mean? How does it apply to the world and our everyday lives.Mathematician Dr. Sco

Teaching the Old Testament with Dr. Jim Tonkowich
October 17, 2023

The theology curricular track at Wyoming Catholic College begins with "Salvation History in the Old Testament." The course is, for the most part, reading the narrative portions of the Old Testament fr

Learning to Write Well with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
October 10, 2023

Reading, said Sir Francis Bacon, maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.Student academic life at Wyoming Catholic College mirrors Bacons comment. Our students read t

Homer’s ”Iliad” with Dr. Glenn Arbery
October 03, 2023

The Iliad, first of Homers great epics, tells the tale of the war between Greece and Troy as it unfolded on the plains outside that ancient city. And the focus of the tale is Achilleus, the greatest

Fall Outdoor Week and Rafting the Canyon of Lodore with Mr. Paul Milligan
September 26, 2023

To graduate from Wyoming Catholic College, students need to spend at least ten weeks in the wilderness. That includes their three-week freshman expedition, a one-week freshman winter trip just after C

Aristotle’s ”Nicomachean Ethics” with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
September 19, 2023

Every art and every investigation, and similarly every action and pursuit, wrote Aristotle at the beginning of his book on ethics, is considered to aim at some good. Hence the good has rightly been