| 12/20/2023 |
Dante’s Characters: Part Two, Ulysses |
| 12/14/2023 |
Dante’s Characters: Part One, Francesca da Rimini |
| 12/08/2023 |
Garry Nolan on UFOs |
| 10/19/2023 |
Women and Madness |
| 10/12/2023 |
Vico and Joyce |
| 09/14/2023 |
Robert Harrison on Giambattista Vico |
| 08/31/2023 |
On Gardenism with William Rosenzweig |
| 08/24/2023 |
Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American |
| 08/04/2023 |
On World, Love, and Gloom: An Open Conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht |
| 07/28/2023 |
Amor Mundi: Robert Harrison on World Love |
| 04/12/2023 |
Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Ana Ilievska |
| 03/13/2023 |
The Wilds of Artificial Intelligence with Bryan Cheong |
| 03/02/2023 |
The Idea of America |
| 12/21/2022 |
Three Poems for the Winter Solstice |
| 12/16/2022 |
On Democracy with Aishwary Kumar |
| 09/23/2022 |
Dark Matter, God, and the Fate of the Universe with Maria Elena Monzani |
| 08/26/2022 |
On Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy with Andrew Mitchell |
| 06/12/2022 |
California Writers Part 2 |
| 05/27/2022 |
Czeslaw Milosz: A Discussion with Cynthia Haven |
| 05/13/2022 |
To the Lighthouse with Miles Osgood |
| 04/29/2022 |
Letter writing: A Media Revolution with Chloe Summers Edmondson |
| 04/09/2022 |
The Epic of Gilgamesh with Sophus Helle |
| 04/01/2022 |
Thought and Perception with Markus Gabriel |
| 03/24/2022 |
In The Flow: A Brief Monologue |
| 01/18/2022 |
California Writers Part 1 |
| 12/21/2021 |
Baroque Modernity with Joseph Cermatori |
| 12/03/2021 |
The Uses of Trauma with Alex Rex |
| 11/18/2021 |
Custodianship of the Earth with Thomas Woltz |
| 08/23/2021 |
Robert Harrison on Great Narrative Endings |
| 08/12/2021 |
Aqsa Ijaz on Rumi |
| 08/05/2021 |
What is Matter? with Bryan Cheong |
| 07/29/2021 |
Mark C. Taylor on Silence |
| 07/22/2021 |
What do Bridges do? With Thomas Harrison |
| 07/15/2021 |
Mark C. Taylor on Technology, Cybernetics, and Intervolution |
| 07/08/2021 |
Christy Wampole on Degenerative Realism |
| 07/07/2021 |
Robert Harrison contre Proust |
| 12/30/2020 |
On the word “And” |
| 12/17/2020 |
Robert Harrison on Separation |
| 07/30/2020 |
On Time, Death, and Cosmos |
| 07/08/2020 |
The Heart of the Sun |
| 06/26/2020 |
The Fatidic Power of Literature |
| 06/05/2020 |
Dead Voices |
| 05/18/2020 |
Happy Hour with Jethro Tull |
| 05/07/2020 |
Robert Harrison on mimetic desire, social media, and biotechnology |
| 04/24/2020 |
Christopher Watkin on Michel Serres |
| 04/17/2020 |
Happy Hour with Jimi Hendrix |
| 04/10/2020 |
Boccaccio's Human Comedy |
| 04/08/2020 |
Pandemic, Dread, and Boccaccio’s Decameron |
| 06/21/2019 |
Robert Harrison on willows and thresholds |
| 06/11/2019 |
Pau Guinart on Salvador Dalí |
| 06/04/2019 |
Marisa Galvez on Crystals |
| 05/27/2019 |
Walking in Ice with Werner Herzog |
| 05/21/2019 |
A centennial tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| 05/15/2019 |
The American Road— Part 2 |
| 05/07/2019 |
On the railroad with Kai Carlson-Wee |
| 04/30/2019 |
Reflections on the color white |
| 04/23/2019 |
Cybersecurity with Donnie Hasseltine |
| 04/16/2019 |
Simone de Beauvoir with Jeremy Sabol |
| 04/10/2019 |
What is Love? |
| 06/25/2018 |
A tribute to summer |
| 06/15/2018 |
Alison McQueen on Political Realism and Apocalypse |
| 06/07/2018 |
Fred Turner on Cyberculture and The Democratic Surround |
| 05/30/2018 |
Quinn Slobodian on Neoliberalism |
| 05/23/2018 |
Francis Fukuyama on American Democracy and Accountability |
| 05/16/2018 |
Dan Edelstein on Human Rights |
| 05/08/2018 |
Priya Nelson on academic publishing |
| 04/18/2018 |
Alexander Key on Medieval Islamic thought |
| 04/09/2018 |
Andrew Hui on aphorism |
| 02/02/2018 |
Lena Herzog on dying languages |
| 09/22/2017 |
Richard Rorty on the future of philosophy |
| 07/20/2017 |
Hiatus Announcement |
| 07/12/2017 |
Is Henry David Thoreau a philosopher, too? Andrea Nightingale votes yes. |
| 07/06/2017 |
William Hurlbut on gene editing |
| 07/05/2017 |
Eric McLuhan on Marshall McLuhan |
| 06/20/2017 |
Great albums of 1967 with Jay Kadis and Thomas Harrison |
| 06/07/2017 |
Michaela Hulstyn on Drugs in Literature |
| 05/27/2017 |
Sam Ginn on the Singularity |
| 05/20/2017 |
Hans Sluga on Trump's “Empire of Disorientation” |
| 12/15/2016 |
“I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite” : Peter Sloterdijk on Nietzsche |
| 06/29/2016 |
“Mary Shelley is a dissenting voice”: Inga Pierson on Frankenstein and the Age of Science |
| 06/15/2016 |
“It has happened. So it can happen again.” Philip Gourevitch on genocide |
| 06/08/2016 |
Rebecca Pekron on Arthur Rimbaud |
| 06/01/2016 |
A conversation about Joseph Conrad's The Shadow Line with Monika Greenleaf and Rush Rehm |
| 05/25/2016 |
Valerie Kinsey on Public Memory |
| 05/18/2016 |
Alice Kaplan on Albert Camus and “The Stranger” |
| 05/11/2016 |
Monika Greenleaf on Joseph Conrad's Polish Roots |
| 05/04/2016 |
Thomas Mullaney on the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter |
| 04/27/2016 |
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on Guy Debord, Situationism, and Psychogeography |
| 04/20/2016 |
Poet Maria Stepanova on Memory and Russia’s “Schizoid Present” |
| 04/13/2016 |
Andrea Nightingale on J.A. Baker's “The Peregrine” |
| 04/06/2016 |
Aishwary Kumar on Gandhi and Ambedkar – Part 2 |
| 03/22/2016 |
Werner Herzog on “The Peregrine” and the Importance of Reading |
| 12/16/2015 |
Sepp Gumbrecht on Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau |
| 12/09/2015 |
Rebecca Pekron on Edgar Allan Poe |
| 12/02/2015 |
Eric Roberts on Computer Science |
| 11/18/2015 |
Marilyn Yalom on Female Friendship |
| 11/10/2015 |
Niklas Damiris on Money |
| 11/04/2015 |
Marilynne Robinson and the Perception of the Ordinary |
| 10/28/2015 |
Thomas Ryckman on Albert Einstein |
| 10/21/2015 |
Ruth Starkman on Virtue Ethics |
| 10/14/2015 |
Hans Sluga on Politics |
| 10/07/2015 |
Hans Sluga on the life and work of Wittgenstein |
| 09/30/2015 |
Robert Harrison and Truman Chen on Randolph Bourne |
| 06/20/2014 |
Robert Harrison on Lightness and Heaviness in Art |
| 06/11/2014 |
Edward Feigenbaum on Artificial Intelligence |
| 06/04/2014 |
Paul Rabinow on Foucault and “the contemporary” |
| 05/28/2014 |
Jessica Merrill on Russian Futurism |
| 05/21/2014 |
Monika Greenleaf on Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov |
| 05/14/2014 |
Karol Berger on Richard Wagner- Part 2 |
| 05/07/2014 |
Mark McGurl on Fiction-Writing Programs |
| 04/30/2014 |
David Lummus on Mythology |
| 04/23/2014 |
Richard Kearney on anatheism |
| 04/16/2014 |
Grisha Freidin on Leo Tolstoy |
| 04/09/2014 |
Sarah Churchwell on The Great Gatsby |
| 03/27/2014 |
“How Old are We?” — A Monologue |
| 12/30/2013 |
Dante and J. Alfred Prufrock |
| 08/09/2013 |
Andrei Linde on the Universe |
| 07/03/2013 |
Karen Feldman on Walter Benjamin |
| 06/26/2013 |
Inga Pierson on Simone Weil |
| 06/12/2013 |
Michael Hoyer on David Foster Wallace |
| 06/05/2013 |
Marisa Galvez on Troubadour Poetry |
| 05/29/2013 |
A Monologue on The Doors (Dedicated to Ray Manzarek) |
| 05/22/2013 |
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger & Technology |
| 05/15/2013 |
Amir Eshel on Franz Kafka |
| 05/08/2013 |
Robert Harrison on animal rights |
| 04/24/2013 |
Tamara Kayali on Bioethics |
| 04/17/2013 |
“It stuns me every time”: Lena Herzog on the Uncanny Powers of Photography |
| 04/10/2013 |
Paul Robinson on Charles Darwin |
| 04/01/2013 |
Martin Lewis and Asya Pereltsvaig on the Origins of Language |
| 03/26/2013 |
Robert Harrison on Margaret Fuller |
| 06/27/2012 |
Chloe Veltman on the Human Voice |
| 06/06/2012 |
Ewa Domanska on Post-humanism |
| 05/30/2012 |
Gabriella Safran on Listening |
| 05/23/2012 |
Andrew Hui on Petrarch and Petrarchism |
| 05/16/2012 |
EO listener Sasha Borovik on Life, Literature, and Lermontov |
| 05/09/2012 |
Leah DeVun on Hermaphroditism |
| 05/02/2012 |
Tanya Luhrmann on Magic, God, and the Supernatural |
| 04/25/2012 |
Debra Satz on John Rawls |
| 04/18/2012 |
Hans Sluga on Michel Foucault |
| 04/11/2012 |
Ursula Heise on Extinction |
| 11/30/2011 |
Stephen Hinton on Nietzsche and Wagner |
| 11/23/2011 |
Dr. Larry Zaroff on Medicine and the Humanity |
| 11/16/2011 |
Richard Martin on Homeric Epics |
| 11/09/2011 |
Martin Lewis on Geography |
| 11/02/2011 |
Denise Gigante on John Keats |
| 10/25/2011 |
Richard Saller on the Ancient Rome |
| 10/19/2011 |
Adrian Daub on Hegel |
| 10/12/2011 |
Patrick Hunt on the Rosetta Stone |
| 10/05/2011 |
Thomas Sheehan on Phenomenology |
| 04/25/2011 |
Sonia Korn-Grimani on her memoir of the Holocaust |
| 04/12/2011 |
Robert Harrison on Samuel Beckett |
| 04/05/2011 |
Stuart Edelstein on the Human Brain |
| 03/29/2011 |
Jay Kadis on Psychedelic Rock |
| 03/22/2011 |
Sarah Carey on Italian Cinema |
| 03/15/2011 |
Rush Rehm on Greek Tragedy |
| 03/08/2011 |
Blair Hoxby on Aristotle’s Poetics |
| 03/01/2011 |
Lyonel Trouillot on Haiti and Haitian literature |
| 02/22/2011 |
Christy Wampole on the Nouveau Roman |
| 02/15/2011 |
Alexander Nehamas on Beauty |
| 02/08/2011 |
Nicholas Halmi on the Romantic symbol |
| 02/01/2011 |
Héctor Hoyos on Roberto Bolaño |
| 01/25/2011 |
Mace Perlman on the Commedia dell'Arte |
| 01/18/2011 |
Caroline Winterer on Classicism in America |
| 01/11/2011 |
Andrea Nightingale on Moby Dick |
| 06/23/2010 |
The Ethos of “Cool”: Robert Harrison on Jim Morrison and The Doors |
| 05/25/2010 |
Laura Wittman on Georges Bataille |
| 05/18/2010 |
Thomas Sheehan on Heidegger’s Being and Time |
| 05/11/2010 |
Thomas Harrison on Pink Floyd |
| 05/04/2010 |
Rush Rehm on Glass Wave, Robert Harrison's cerebral rock band |
| 04/20/2010 |
Joshua Landy on the Uses of Literature |
| 04/13/2010 |
Paula Findlen on Athanasius Kircher |
| 04/05/2010 |
Vincent Barletta on Alexander the Great |
| 03/02/2010 |
Giuseppe Mazzotta on Italian Epic Poetry |
| 02/23/2010 |
Jay Kadis on Digital Music |
| 02/16/2010 |
Gwyneth Lewis on Welsh literature- Part 1 |
| 02/09/2010 |
Tobias Wolff on American fiction |
| 01/19/2010 |
Steven Orgel on Shakespeare’s King Lear |
| 12/09/2009 |
A Monologue on Wallace Stevens |
| 12/07/2009 |
A Monologue on Machiavelli |
| 11/25/2009 |
Andrea Nightingale on Plato |
| 11/23/2009 |
Hans Gumbrecht on Borges |
| 10/19/2009 |
Byrd Hale on Blues – Part 2 |
| 10/06/2009 |
Dick Gould on Tennis |
| 09/29/2009 |
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on the Unabomber |
| 06/20/2009 |
The Jimi Hendrix Solo Show |
| 06/01/2009 |
Panagiotis Agapitos on Byzantium- Part 1 |
| 05/26/2009 |
Andrew Mitchell on Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 05/19/2009 |
Josh Landy with Michael Saler on the Re-enchantment of the World |
| 05/12/2009 |
Marília Librandi Rocha on Nuance and Brazil |
| 05/05/2009 |
Adrian Daub on the Metaphysics of Misogyny |
| 04/28/2009 |
Denise Gigante on Romanticism and Organic Form |
| 04/21/2009 |
Stephen Hinton on Beethoven- Part 1 |
| 12/15/2008 |
Robert Harrison on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness |
| 12/09/2008 |
Philosopher Michel Serres – Réflexions sur l'Internet (in French) |
| 12/02/2008 |
Matt Farley on the Jesuit Order |
| 11/25/2008 |
Helen Stacy on Human Rights |
| 11/18/2008 |
Peter Stansky on WWII and the Blitz |
| 11/11/2008 |
Vinton Cerf of Google on the future of the internet |
| 11/04/2008 |
Josh Landy with Lera Boroditsky on language and thought |
| 10/28/2008 |
Dr. Abraham Verghese on medicine and his literary career |
| 10/21/2008 |
Heather Webb and Connie Solari on the heart |
| 10/14/2008 |
Dick Davis on Persian Literature |
| 10/07/2008 |
Sepp Gumbrecht on the philosophy of moods |
| 09/30/2008 |
Nicholas Jenkins on W.H. Auden |
| 09/24/2008 |
Paul Robinson on Intellectual History |
| 04/14/2008 |
Lanier Anderson on Sartre's Existentialism |
| 04/10/2008 |
Robert Harrison on Erwin Schrödinger |
| 04/01/2008 |
Robert Harrison on Giovanni Boccaccio |
| 03/18/2008 |
Giovanni Tempesta on the Poetry of Robert Service |
| 03/11/2008 |
Blakey Vermeule on Jane Austen |
| 02/26/2008 |
Laura Wittman on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons |
| 02/19/2008 |
Hayden White on the Vocation of the Humanities |
| 02/12/2008 |
Dr. Stewart Agras on the History of Psychiatry |
| 01/29/2008 |
Archaeologist Michael Shanks on the Origins of Agriculture |
| 01/25/2008 |
Aron Rodrigue on the Ottoman Empire |
| 01/22/2008 |
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk |
| 01/15/2008 |
Historian Philippe Buc on Religion and Violence |
| 06/19/2007 |
Robert Harrison on Dante and Prufrock |
| 06/12/2007 |
Andrew Mitchell on Poetry and Thinking in Heidegger |
| 06/05/2007 |
Stephen Hinton on Kurt Weill- Part 2 |
| 05/29/2007 |
Charitini Douvaldzi on Freud- Part 2 |
| 05/22/2007 |
Pierre Saint-Amand on the French Enlightenment |
| 05/15/2007 |
Karen Feldman on Hannah Arendt – Part 1 |
| 05/08/2007 |
Troy Jollimore on Tom Thomson in Purgatory |
| 05/01/2007 |
Josh Ober on Ancient Athenian Democracy |
| 04/24/2007 |
Stanford President John Hennessy on Stanford University |
| 04/10/2007 |
The Only Way Up is Down: Rachel Jacoff on Dante's Inferno |
| 06/13/2006 |
Robert Harrison a monologue on Gardens |
| 06/06/2006 |
Irish Novelist Colm Toibin on Henry James |
| 05/30/2006 |
Drew Gibson on Corporations |
| 05/23/2006 |
Ken Berman on Jazz |
| 05/16/2006 |
Dr. Michael Hendrickson on “What is cancer?” |
| 05/09/2006 |
Marjorie Perloff on the European Avantgarde |
| 05/02/2006 |
Kathleen Sullivan on the American Constitution |
| 04/18/2006 |
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 2 |
| 04/11/2006 |
Cécile Alduy on American writers in Paris |
| 04/04/2006 |
Seth Lerer on the history of the book |
| 03/14/2006 |
Lisa “Decca” Dornell on Love Poetry |
| 03/07/2006 |
Thomas Harrison on expressionism in the year 1910 |
| 02/28/2006 |
Marilyn Yalom on the cemeteries of America |
| 02/21/2006 |
Paul Ehrlich on the Fate of the Earth |
| 02/07/2006 |
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on The Man Without Qualities |
| 01/31/2006 |
Thomas Sheehan on the historical Jesus |
| 01/24/2006 |
Kathryn Todd on Henry David Thoreau |
| 01/17/2006 |
Gregory Freidin on Isaac Babel |
| 01/10/2006 |
Novelist Shirley Hazzard |
| 12/13/2005 |
Monika Greeleaf on Nabokov |
| 12/09/2005 |
French Philosopher Michel Serres (in French) |
| 12/06/2005 |
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on Albert Camus |
| 11/29/2005 |
Jeffrey Schnapp on the Phenomenon of Crowds |
| 11/22/2005 |
Richard Rorty on the Future of Philosophy |
| 11/15/2005 |
Marjorie Perloff on Ezra Pound |
| 11/08/2005 |
Andrea Nightingale on Epicurus and Epicureanism |
| 11/01/2005 |
Joshua Landy on Marcel Proust |
| 10/25/2005 |
Susanna Braund on Virgil's Aeneid |
| 10/18/2005 |
Andrew Mitchell on Martin Heidegger |
| 10/11/2005 |
Elisabeth Boyi on African and Caribbean Francophone Writers |
| 10/04/2005 |
René Girard on ritual sacrifice and the scapegoat |
| 09/28/2005 |
Dan Edelstein on the Enlightenment |
| 09/17/2005 |
René Girard: Why We Want What We Want |
| 09/14/2005 |
Laura Wittman on Michel Tournier's Friday |