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#120- The Triumph of the Therapeutic Part 2

#119- The Triumph of the Therapeutic Part 1

#28- How to Listen to Jazz

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Homer’s Narrative Techniques in the Odyssey

#118- Monster Hunter International Part 2

#117- Monster Hunter International Part 1

#27- Chanting: A Religious Experience

#116- Goethe’s Faust Part 2

#115- Goethe’s Faust Part 1

#26- Just Pleasures

#114- Jordan B. Peterson’s Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

#25 – Les Paul: The Father of Multitrack Recording

#113- Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death

#112- Mishima’s Sun and Steel, with Matt Reynolds (Barbell Logic)

#24- Pop Pathos

#111- Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

#110- H.G. Wells’s The New World Order Part 2

#23- Instruments of the Orchestra

#109- H.G. Wells’s The New World Order Part 1

#108- The King of Satire Fantasy: Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal

#22- Rock ‘N’ Roll Pioneer Buddy Holly

#107- Do Ancient Writers Always Tell You What They Mean? Unpacking Essays by Leo Strauss

#106- Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer

#21- The World’s Saddest Guitar Player: Roy Buchanan

#105- Allan Savory’s Holistic Resource Management

#20- Sh**ty Is Pretty: The Anatomy of Funk

#104- A Cautionary Tale: Asimov’s The Naked Sun

#103- Filial Piety in Wendell Berry’s “Pray Without Ceasing”

#19- George Gershwin: A Leading American Composer

#102- Albert Z. Carr’s “Is Business Bluffing Ethical?”

#18 – Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

#100- Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol

#99- Federalist Papers No. 51: Exploring Separation of Powers

#17- Tracing the Origins of the Blues

#98- A Thanksgiving Touchstone: Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and Norman Rockwell’s Freedom from Want

#97- The Oldest Major Work of French Literature: The Song of Roland

#16- A Guide to Tuning and Temperament

#15 – That High Lonesome Sound: The Evolution of Bluegrass

#96- Mark Twain’s “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut”

#14 – Masters of the Classical Period: The String Quartets of Haydn, Dvorak, and Beethoven

#95- Tolstoy’s Mini Masterpiece: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

#94- Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific

#93- The Father of the Western Novel: Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage

#92- C. S. Forester’s Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

#13- An Introduction to Metal

#91- A Founding Figure of Modern Schooling: Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation

#90- The First James Bond Novel: Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale

#12- Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

#89- Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

#88- The Classic Hardboiled Crime Novel: Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep

#11- Why Opera Doesn’t Suck

#87: Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor Part 2

#86: Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor Part 1

#10: Frank Sinatra: The Man, the Music, the Legend

#85- Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” Part 2

#84- Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” Part 1

#83- Belloc’s “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”

#9- The Complete Works of Led Zeppelin

#82- A Landmark of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz

#8- The Best of Hard Bop: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

#81- The Case for Digital Currency: Nakamoto on Bitcoin

#80- J.R.R. Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories”

#79- Rooted in Community: Berry’s Jayber Crow

#78- Jünger’s Storm of Steel

Jazz Icon Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

#77- MacIntyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

#76- A British Humor Classic: Wodehouse’s The Inimitable Jeeves

#75- General Smedley D. Butler’s War is a Racket

#74- Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Part 2

#73- Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Part 1

#6- Jimmie Rodgers: America’s Blue Yodeler

#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.