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D.W. Pasulka and Mary Harrington: UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny
Eric Metaxas and Lord Nigel Biggar: What Did the British Empire Do Right?
Eric Metaxas and James Orr: Can Classical Theism Save Modern Philosophy?
Katharine Birbalsingh and Mary Harrington: We’ve Made Jesus Too Nice
Eric Metaxas and Carrie Gress: Why Feminism is More Deadly Than Communism
Eric Metaxas and John Lennox: Preaching the Gospel Behind the Iron Curtain
Miriam Cates and Mary Harrington: Can the Birth Rate Crisis Be Fixed?
Eric Metaxas and Denis Noble: Why We Have Been Misled About Biology for 80 Years
Erika Bachiochi and Mary Harrington: Can You Be a Pro-Life Feminist?
Eric Metaxas and Joseph Loconte: America’s Forgotten Founding Father, Benjamin Rush
Eric Metaxas and John Lennox: Will Technology Change What It Means to be Human?
Carl Trueman and Mary Harrington: How Should We Live in an Age of Radical Individualism?
Eric Metaxas and Stephen Blackwood: Can Classical Learning Save the Modern University?
Michael Solana and Mary Harrington: Is Silicon Valley Becoming Conservative?
Eric Metaxas and Mary Harrington: The Lost Art of Conversation
Eric Metaxas and Paul Anleitner: What is the Meaning of Life?
Eric Metaxas and Peter Frankopan: Why Was Columbus Sailing West?
Kathleen Stock and Mary Harrington: When Gender Ideology Became Law
Eric Metaxas and Andrew Roberts: Did the Founders Lie About King George III?
Eric Metaxas and Os Guinness: Can Freedom Survive without Faith?
Eric Metaxas and Mark Skousen: What Turned Benjamin Franklin Into a Revolutionary?
Eric Metaxas: What is the Meaning of America?
Eric Metaxas and Ira Stoll: This Founding Father Defies Leftist Narratives
Eric Metaxas and Nathaniel Philbrick: Washington and Arnold, Honor and Betrayal in the Revolutionary War
Spencer Klavan and Mary Harrington: The West is Having a Crisis (Actually, Five)
Eric Metaxas and Jonathan Turley: Rage and the Republic
Eric Metaxas and Jan Jekielek: Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry
Eric Metaxas and Peter Kreeft: Atheism’s Greatest Argument Against God
Freya India and Mary Harrington: Are Women Becoming Objects?
Eric Metaxas and Carl Trueman: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity
Eric Metaxas and Margarita Mooney Clayton: Surprising Encounters with the Mother of God
Lionel Shriver and Mary Harrington: Is the “Better Life” Dream Collapsing?
Eric Metaxas and Peter Giersch: Are Heaven and Hell Real?
James Orr and Mary Harrington: Why Aristotle Would Disagree With Modern Politics
Mary Eberstadt: The Dark Side of the Sexual Revolution
Tom Holland and Mary Harrington: The Rise and Reach of Rome
Eric Metaxas and Jonathan Leaf: Decades of Chimp Propaganda
Louise Perry and Mary Harrington: The Feminization of Society
Eric Metaxas and Hugh Ross: An Astrophysicist Explores the Science of the Bible
Jonathan Pageau and Mary Harrington: Reality in a Disenchanted Age
Nina Power and Mary Harrington: The Ponzi Scheme of Modern Institutions
Eric Metaxas and Martin Shaw: Discovering the True Myth
Mary Harrington and Justin Brierley: The Quiet Revival of Christianity
Roger Kimball and Heather Mac Donald: How Political Correctness Hijacked the Arts
Peter Kreeft and Eric Metaxas: Charlie Kirk, Martyrdom, and Dying for the Truth
Massimo Pigliucci: What is Stoicism?
<p>What is the history of Stoicism and how does one practice it today? Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas sits down with professor and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, author of the popular How to be a Stoic and Beyond Stoicism, to discuss the history and development of Stoicism, and the line between emotion, reason, and virtue. They discuss the influence […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com/listen/massimo-pigliucci-what-is-stoicism/">Massimo Pigliucci: What is Stoicism?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com">Socrates in the City</a>.</p>
Paul Kingsnorth: Against the Machine
<p>Is there an unnamed force ― which we all feel ― reshaping what it means to be human? Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas is joined by the furiously gifted writer, Paul Kingsnorth, to discuss his newest book, Against The Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity. Throughout the compelling ― and at times chilling […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com/listen/paul-kingsnorth-against-the-machine/">Paul Kingsnorth: Against the Machine</a> first appeared on <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com">Socrates in the City</a>.</p>
Joe Loconte: The War for Middle – Earth
<p>“Evil labors with vast power and perpetual success – in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.” —J.R.R. Tolkien What does it mean to cling to truth, beauty, and goodness in the shadow of history’s darkest hours? Can goodness truly spring forth from evil? These questions lie at the heart […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com/listen/joe-loconte-the-war-for-middle-earth/">Joe Loconte: The War for Middle – Earth</a> first appeared on <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com">Socrates in the City</a>.</p>
Arthur Brooks: What is Happiness?
<p>What is happiness? Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas sits down with Dr. Arthur Brooks to discuss one of the most prevalent questions in our society: What is happiness? The question behind his newest book, The Happiness Files. Based on his long career and his lived experience as a Professor and scholar, Dr. Brooks shares not […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com/listen/arthur-brooks-what-is-happiness/">Arthur Brooks: What is Happiness?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com">Socrates in the City</a>.</p>
William Lane Craig: Is the Existence of God Provable?
<p>Can we prove the existence of God? In this Socrates in the City conversation, host Eric Metaxas speaks with William Lane Craig—Emeritus Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, renowned Christian apologist, and one of today’s most influential philosophers. Drawing from his new book, Systematic Philosophical Theology, and more than four decades of […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com/listen/william-lane-craig-is-the-existence-of-god-provable/">William Lane Craig: Is the Existence of God Provable?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://socratesinthecity.com">Socrates in the City</a>.</p>