The Ralston College Podcast

The Ralston College Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ep. 30 - From the Cave of Pythagoras: A Lecture and Discussion with Douglas Hedley
March 01, 2023

Ralston College presents a lecture by University of Cambridge Professor Douglas Hedley on the influential and mysterious pre-Socratic philosopher Pythagoras. Given in the very cave in Samos in which P

Ep. 29 - Marie Kawthar Daouda: Baudelaire and the Creation of the Poetic Self
October 13, 2022

Ralston College presents a lecture by Marie Kawthar Daouda on the infamous French poet, Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire published one collection of poems in his lifetime, 'Les Fleurs du mal,' which was

Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self
August 24, 2022

Ralston College presents a lecture by Arif Ahmed on David Humes conception of self in Book I of his Treatise of Human Nature. The idea of the self or soul as an enduring subject of experience s

Ep. 27 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part II
August 03, 2022

Ralston College presents a lecture by Alan Charles Kors on Voltaire's great work 'The Philosophical Letters.' Profoundly impressed by the English scientific and philosophical revolutions of the sevent

Ep. 26 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part I
June 28, 2022

Ralston College presents a two-part series of lectures by Alan Charles Kors on Voltaire's great work 'The Philosophical Letters.' Profoundly impressed by the English scientific and philosophical revol

Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
April 13, 2022

Ralston College presents a lecture delivered on March 17th, 2022 by Theodore Dalrymple (aka Anthony Daniels) on H. G. Wellss extraordinary 'scientific romance,' 'The Time Machine'. A brilliant seer

Ep. 24 - Vernon Smith: Self-Interest Reconsidered
January 11, 2022

Stephen Blackwood speaks with the Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Vernon L. Smith. They begin by defining and exploring commonly misunderstood economic termsmarkets, capitalism, equilibriumand

Ep. 23 - Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites
November 20, 2021

Ralston College presents a lecture delivered on October 26th, 2021 by Dr Iain McGilchrist followed by a discussion with Dr Stephen Blackwood and questions from the audience. In his lecture Dr McGilchr

Ep. 22 - Marwa Al-Sabouni: Architecture as a Matter of Life or Death
July 19, 2021

Ralston College presents a conversation between Stephen Blackwood and award-winning architect and author Marwa Al-Sabouni, followed by an audience Q&A. A voice of penetrating clarity and prophetic pow

Ep. 21 - Alexander Stoddart: Culture as Communion with the Dead
June 02, 2021

In Part II of their discussion Stephen Blackwood and Alexander Stoddart speak about the transhistorical community of past, present, and future. Stoddart explicates his Schopenhauerian view of art as life-denying and thus paradoxically able to help us...