The Benson Center podcast explores topics in Western philosophy, politics, literature, and history with adventurous disregard for academic fashions and intellectual trends. Host Shilo Brooks invites listeners to pull up a chair in an intellectual laboratory where great questions and great books are explored in the spirit of truth-seeking, and conversations are had in a candid style free of scholarly jargon. New episodes in season four air the second Tuesday of each month through Dec. 13, 2022. Season five begins Jan. 10, 2023, with Matthew Burgess taking over as host.
Fall 2022 Release Schedule
- Aug. 9, 2022: A farewell from Shilo Brooks, and a new host!
- Aug. 9, 2022: Taylor Jaworski on the discipline of economic history.
- Sept. 13, 2022: Deirdre McCloskey on how capitalism cultivates virtue.
- Oct. 11, 2022: Alex Priou on Plato’s “Republic” and other writings.
- Nov. 8, 2022: Alan Kahan on the continued relevance of Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America.”
- Dec. 13, 2022: Matthew Burgess on political polarization and free inquiry in higher education.
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