Stephen Blackwood speaks with Harry Lewis, legendary Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University (where he taught both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg). They discuss the tragic limits of narrowly vocational approaches to education—with which many young people are pressured to conform—by contrast with education that fosters true self-reflection and a meaningful life. They also discuss cancel culture, college admissions, and freedom of speech.
Ep. 30 - From the Cave of Pythagoras: A Lecture and Discussion with Douglas Hedley
Ep. 29 - Marie Kawthar Daouda: Baudelaire and the Creation of the Poetic Self
Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self
Ep. 27 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part II
Ep. 26 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part I
Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
Ep. 24 - Vernon Smith: Self-Interest Reconsidered
Ep. 23 - Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites
Ep. 22 - Marwa Al-Sabouni: Architecture as a Matter of Life or Death
Ep. 21 - Alexander Stoddart: Culture as Communion with the Dead
Ep. 20 - On Becoming Alan Dershowitz
Ep. 19 - Victor Davis Hanson on Who Killed Homer
Ep. 18 – Andrew Doyle on Free Speech and Why It Matters
Ep. 17 - Alexander Stoddart: A Conversation in His Studio
Ep. 15 – Theodore Dalrymple on Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons”
Ep. 14 - The Morality of Satire: Andrew Doyle and Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 13 - On the Freedom of Thought and Nature: Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 12 - A Discussion of 'Ivan Ilyich:' Donna Orwin and Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 11 - Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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