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Socrates in the City

Socrates in the City

The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living.

Socrates in the City

138 episodesEN-US

Show overview

Socrates in the City has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 138 episodes. That works out to roughly 150 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 59 min and 1h 18m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 38 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2019, with 45 episodes published.

Episodes
138
Running
2019–2026 · 7y
Median length
1h 9m
Cadence
Monthly

From the publisher

Socrates in the City is the acclaimed series of conversations on “life, God, and other small topics,” hosted by Eric Metaxas. Starting with the philosopher Socrates’s famous words that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” Metaxas thought it would be valuable to create a forum that might encourage busy New Yorkers in thinking about the bigger questions in life. He founded Socrates in the City in 2000. Metaxas is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of MARTIN LUTHER, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT, BONHOEFFER, AMAZING GRACE, and MIRACLES. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and Metaxas has appeared as a cultural commentator on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. He is the host of The Eric Metaxas Radio Show, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard in more than 120 cities around the U.S. and via podcast in over 80 countries.

Latest Episodes

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Eric Metaxas and Denis Noble: Why We Have Been Misled About Biology for 80 Years

Aug 27, 20261h 6m

Erika Bachiochi and Mary Harrington: Can You Be a Pro-Life Feminist?

Aug 25, 202658 min

Eric Metaxas and Joseph Loconte: America’s Forgotten Founding Father, Benjamin Rush

Aug 25, 20261h 2m

Eric Metaxas and John Lennox: Will Technology Change What It Means to be Human?

Aug 21, 202646 min

Carl Trueman and Mary Harrington: How Should We Live in an Age of Radical Individualism?

Aug 13, 202622 min

Eric Metaxas and Stephen Blackwood: Can Classical Learning Save the Modern University?

Aug 13, 202651 min

Michael Solana and Mary Harrington: Is Silicon Valley Becoming Conservative?

Jul 24, 20261h 3m

Eric Metaxas and Mary Harrington: The Lost Art of Conversation

Jul 20, 202653 min

Eric Metaxas and Paul Anleitner: What is the Meaning of Life?

Jul 15, 20261h 2m

Eric Metaxas and Peter Frankopan: Why Was Columbus Sailing West?

Jul 10, 202656 min

Kathleen Stock and Mary Harrington: When Gender Ideology Became Law

Jul 9, 20261h 0m

Eric Metaxas and Andrew Roberts: Did the Founders Lie About King George III?

Jul 8, 202655 min

Eric Metaxas and Os Guinness: Can Freedom Survive without Faith?

Jun 29, 20261h 2m

Eric Metaxas and Mark Skousen: What Turned Benjamin Franklin Into a Revolutionary?

Jun 25, 20261h 8m

Eric Metaxas: What is the Meaning of America?

Jun 24, 202651 min

Eric Metaxas and Ira Stoll: This Founding Father Defies Leftist Narratives

Jun 22, 20261h 13m

Eric Metaxas and Nathaniel Philbrick: Washington and Arnold, Honor and Betrayal in the Revolutionary War

Jun 18, 20261h 15m

Spencer Klavan and Mary Harrington: The West is Having a Crisis (Actually, Five)

Jun 18, 20261h 42m

Eric Metaxas and Jonathan Turley: Rage and the Republic

Jun 17, 202654 min

Eric Metaxas and Jan Jekielek: Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry

Jun 16, 20261h 1m