The New Thinkery

The New Thinkery is a podcast devoted to political philosophy and its history, along with its many guises in literature, film, and human experience generally. Named after Socrates’ infamous “Thinkery” in Aristophanes’ Clouds, The New Thinkery strikes a balance between the seriousness of academia and the playfulness of casual conversation among friends.

Brian Chau on the Straussian Generation, Part I 03/05/2025

Spencer Klavan on Epicureanism 02/26/2025

Zena Hitz on Plato's Charmides 02/19/2025

Richard Velkley on Heidegger and Strauss 02/12/2025

Averroes and al-Ghazali 02/05/2025

Devin Stauffer on Leo Strauss' Natural Right & History, Chapter 4 01/29/2025

Christopher Nadon On Classical Education and Why Kids Can't Read Good No More 01/22/2025

Steven Lenzner & Svetozar Minkov on Strauss' Debate with Jacob Klein 01/15/2025

Steven Lenzner & Svetozar Minkov on the Intention of Rousseau 01/08/2025

Panel: Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium, Part II 01/01/2025

Adam Carrington on John Ford's Three Godfathers 12/25/2024

Panel: Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium, Part I 12/18/2024

Roosevelt Montás on the Virtues of a Liberal Education 12/11/2024

Thomas Powers on the Civil Rights Movement 12/04/2024

Samuel Stoner on Kant’s Conjectural Beginnings and the Story of Genesis 11/27/2024

Giovanni Ferrari on Plato the Writer 11/20/2024

Damian Jungerman on Hannah Arendt's "Philosophy and Politics" 11/13/2024

John Ford's The Sun Shines Bright 11/06/2024

Charles Butterworth on Al-Farabi's Book of Letters 10/30/2024

Patrick Deneen on Strauss' Three Waves of Modernity 10/23/2024

An Overview of Homer's Odyssey 10/16/2024

Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books 10/09/2024

Sabrina Little on Athletics and Virtue 10/02/2024

Leo Strauss' "On the Interpretation of Genesis" 09/25/2024

Lincoln and the Founding 09/18/2024

Eric Adler on Livy's History of Rome, Book I Ch. 1-16 09/11/2024

Walter Sterling on T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" 09/04/2024

Pano Kanelos on Hamlet and the University of Austin 08/28/2024

Robert Wyllie on Understanding Byung-Chul Han 08/21/2024

Flagg Taylor on Jan Patočka's The Spiritual Person & the Intellectual 08/14/2024