New Humanists
Join the hosts of New Humanists and founders of the Ancient Language Institute, Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill, on their quest to discover what a renewed humanism looks like for the modern world. The Ancient Language Institute is an online language school and think tank, dedicated to changing the way ancient languages are taught.
Podcasting since 2021 • 75 episodes
New Humanists
Latest Episodes
The Homer-Industrial Complex | Episode LXXV
The Iliad was more popular than the Odyssey beginning in ancient times, and continued to be all the way up to World War One. Then, something changed. Now the Odyssey leaves the Iliad in the dust in terms of which poem gets assigned more frequen...
September 01, 2024
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Episode 75
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Humanism, With or Without God, feat. Eric Adler | Episode LXXIV
For the first time, a collection of Irving Babbitt's and Paul Elmer More's correspondence has been published. Eric Adler, the editor of the collection (titled "Humanistic Letters") joins the show to discuss the collection, New Humanism, and the...
August 15, 2024
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Episode 74
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Medieval Monastic Humanism | Episode LXXIII
Love for Cicero, attention to rhetorical form, use of pagan wisdom for political thought - these are all hallmarks of the Renaissance humanists. But not their invention. In fact, you find the same things among some medieval thinkers. Jonathan a...
August 01, 2024
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Episode 73
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How to Learn Like Thomas Aquinas | Episode LXXII
Thomas Aquinas is also known as the "Angelic Doctor," but he was quite capable of coming down from the heavens and getting practical. In two selections from his work included in Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition, we find some of Thomas' a...
July 15, 2024
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Episode 72
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Pagans and Christians, Glory and Piety | Episode LXXI
The things of God belong to a heavenly kingdom. But politics is taken up with what is earthly. Surely, therefore, Christians should keep politics at a distance as much as possible. Right? Even while defending the life of contemplation and retre...
July 01, 2024
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Episode 71
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