Moving Pictures
An interview with Dr. Eric Adler, professor of classics, about his wonderful book The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today. We believe that if there is anyway to save the Humanities (and our humanity) in the age of AI and DEI, it will have to be along the lines outlined in this book. Watch the video for a short introduction, and then purchase his book to hear the whole story.
The last filmed interview with St. John’s College tutor Eva Brann exploring the contradiction inherent in education: the necessity of giving a student something of substance, but to not shackle them to it. Additionally, she offers insight into the nature of philosophy, the Great Books, and the immigrant’s journey of becoming American—which she underwent in 1941 when she was forced at the age of twelve to flee Nazi Germany.
An interview with Dr. James Hatley, professor of Environmental Studies, and student of Henry Bugbee, a now mostly forgotten mid-twentieth century American philosopher. This video serves as an introduction to an eight episode seminar on Bugbee’s singular (meaning both remarkable, and only) work, The Inward Morning: A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form. For a deeper dive into his life and thought, we have also published an introductory essay by our friend Joseph Keegin: Thinker, Wanderer, Fly-Fisherman.