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#74- Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Part 2

#73- Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Part 1

#6- Jimmie Rodgers: America’s Blue Yodeler

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#59- Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: Why Are We Always So Busy?

#72- G. K. Chesterton’s What I Saw In America

#71- Citizenship In Heinlein’s Starship Troopers

#5- The Legacy of Toto

#70- Are We Living in Orwell’s 1984?

#69- The Original Adventures of Conan the Barbarian

#4- Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C Major

#68- Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Masque Of The Red Death”

#67- Montaigne’s “Of the Education of Children”

#3- Harmony in Chopin’s Prelude Op. 28, No. 4

#66- The Other Side of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

#65- Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Love

#2- Louis Armstrong’s West End Blues: Improvisation and the Blues

#64- Transmitting Culture in Mishima’s The Sound of Waves

#63- Frank Herbert’s Dune: Testing the Limits of What it Means to be Human

#1- Brahms’ Symphony No. 3: Music as Conversation

#62- The Magna Carta: Exploring the 800-Year Legacy

#61- Why Did the Articles of Confederation Fail?

#60- The Master of Satire: Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal

#59- Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: Why Are We Always So Busy?

#58- Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word: The History of Tastemakers and Influencers

#57- Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: How Literature Can Save Us

#56- How to Listen to Classical Music and Actually Enjoy It: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 and The Heiligenstadt Testament with Michelle Hawkins

#55- The FAQ Show

#54- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

#53- The Medium is the Massage

#52- Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

#51- Edward Bernays’ Propaganda

#50- Why Read the Great Books?

#49- Leisure, the Basis of Culture

#48- Emerson’s “The American Scholar”

#47- How We Read

#46- Defining Happiness: Scott and Karl Discuss Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

#45- Plutarch on Progress in Virtue

#44- The Lost Tools of Learning

#43- Karl Drops Out Of School

#42- Harold Bloom, You’ll Be Missed

#41- Gabriel Marcel on Avoiding The Loss Of Our Humanity

#40- Hobbes’ Leviathan

#39- Emerson on Self-Reliance

#38- On Love

#37- A Scandal In Bohemia

The tables have turned. Scott makes Karl read “A Scandal In Bohemia” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Understanding this short story is to understand what made young Scott tick.

#36- The Lord of the Rings Part 2

In the second installment of the series, Scott Hambrick and Karl Schudt continue their discussion of Tolkien’s magic in The Lord of the Rings. The two talk about the problem of evil in this Homeric story, what the good life actually looks like, models of hope we see in many of the characters, the unyielding power of friendship, language’s captivating ability to transmit culture, and so much more.

#35- The Lord of the Rings Part 1

After years of Karl’s persistent hounding, Scott finally reads The Lord of the Rings. The two discuss elves, orcs, dwarfs, hobbits, and so much more.