Unmachining: Reclaiming a Grounded Life
Increasingly, technology is dominating our lives. How do we stay human in the midst of digital upheaval? What lessons can we glean from dystopian literature? Is there a heuristic we can adopt that he...
11 Sep 202450min
Exploring "Off-Liberalism" with Fred Bauer
Liberalism is often taken to be essentially about the promotion of radical individual autonomy, but might this understanding of liberalism be only one kind of liberalism? And, if so, why does that mat...
31 Juli 202437min
"Relearning How to Read" with Kathryn Mogk Wagner
Does it take a trained expert to read books in our own language? The heart of English departments around the world is the love of amateurs, yet that heart seems to be gradually shrinking, replaced mor...
2 Juli 202453min
Why Does Beauty Wound? with John-Paul Heil
You are marveling at a beautiful sunset, standing in awe before an Italian masterpiece, or gazing lovingly into the face of your beloved. These moments of beauty, however brief, impact our hearts, min...
5 Juni 202446min
Can We Rebuild the American Trades?
What has become of the trades within our country? Where did the blue-collar workers go and what is the reason behind their disappearance? Is there anything we can do to rebuild and re-vitalize this cr...
7 Maj 202442min
Where Do Bioethics Begin? with Michael Deem
As a bioethicist and Catholic deacon-in-training, Dr. Michael Deem has spent years in the medical trenches as well as in theological and philosophical research. Michael Deem joins Grant in this episod...
24 Jan 20241h 1min
How Are Numbers Beautiful? with Francis Su
How is mathematics a liberal art? How can being good at math translate into virtue? Dr. Francis Su, the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, is well aware of mathematic...
29 Nov 202338min
