New Humanists
Join the hosts of New Humanists and founders of the Ancient Language Institute, Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill, on their quest to discover what a renewed humanism looks like for the modern world. The Ancient Language Institute is an online language school and think tank, dedicated to changing the
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Society & Culture
Education
Philosophy
The Homer-Industrial Complex | Episode LXXV
The Iliad was more popular than the Odyssey beginnin...
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Sep 1 2024 58m
Humanism, With or Without God, feat. Eric Adler | Episode LXXIV
For the first time, a collection of Irving Babbitt&a...
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Aug 15 2024 1h 40m
Medieval Monastic Humanism | Episode LXXIII
Love for Cicero, attention to rhetorical form, use o...
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Aug 1 2024 52m
How to Learn Like Thomas Aquinas | Episode LXXII
Thomas Aquinas is also known as the "Angelic Do...
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Jul 15 2024 51m
Pagans and Christians, Glory and Piety | Episode LXXI
The things of God belong to a heavenly kingdom. But ...
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Jul 1 2024 1h
Petrarch's Little Dark Age | Episode LXX
Imagine that you are the leading figure in a movemen...
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Jun 15 2024 59m
Liberal Arts for Liberal Hearts | Episode LXIX
Are the liberal arts for everyone? We tend to think ...
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Jun 1 2024 55m
What is Tyranny? | Episode LXVIII
We think we know what a "republic" is, but...
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May 15 2024 53m
The Renaissance Politics of Virtue | Episode LXVII
A pandemic. A changing climate. A hopelessly divided...
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May 1 2024 1h 9m
Christine de Pizan | Episode LXVI
The poet of Joan of Arc, and a notable example of a ...
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Apr 15 2024 38m
Your Children Are Weak | Episode LXV
In his essay "On Educating Children," a fo...
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Apr 1 2024 47m
The Art of Language Teaching, feat. Tim Griffith | Episode LXIV
When Tim Griffith was coaching soccer and reading an...
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Mar 15 2024 1h 13m
Republican Education, feat. Clifford Humphrey | Episode LXIII
We threw off the monarchy... now what? Having establ...
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Mar 1 2024 1h 7m
Mediocrity Versus Glory in the Renaissance | Episode LXII
Leonardo Bruni was the titan of Renaissance historia...
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Feb 15 2024 48m
Does Education Improve the Soul? | Episode LXI
Michel de Montaigne was a native Latin speaker in mo...
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Feb 2 2024 58m
Pope Humanist | Episode LX
Aeneas Silvius was an accomplished Renaissance human...
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Jan 15 2024 46m
Prince Erasmus | Episode LIX
Jonathan and Ryan turn to a set of selections from t...
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Jan 1 2024 49m
All Education Is Religious | Episode LVIII
"As only the Catholic and communist know, all e...
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Dec 15 2023 1h 5m
Compassion Versus Classical Antiquity | Episode LVII
In The Greek State, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that ...
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Dec 1 2023 1h 10m
Nietzsche, Homer, and Cruelty | Episode LVI
Why was it that the Greeks, the most humane of all p...
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Nov 15 2023 1h 16m
The Mirror for Princes | Episode LV
Thomas Elyot wrote "The Boke named the Governou...
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Sep 15 2023 1h 12m
Martin Luther for Public Schools (or, Don't Be an Ostrich) | Episode LIV
"Simple necessity has forced men, even among th...
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Sep 1 2023 59m
Only the Weak Desire a Quiet Life | Episode LIII
Ulrich Zwingli was one of the towering figures of th...
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Aug 15 2023 1h 6m
Return of the Old Gods in Germany | Episode LII
In the opening lecture of his course on Homer, the P...
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Aug 1 2023 1h 15m
The Warm and Capacious Calvin | Episode LI
A stern prophet of the new and harsh doctrine of pre...
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Jul 15 2023 50m