The Ralston College Podcast delivers a series of conversations and lectures aimed at fostering a deeper, livelier, and freer intellectual culture for us all.
The Ralston College Podcast
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The Ralston College Podcast delivers a series of conversations and lectures aimed at fostering a deeper, livelier, and freer intellectual culture for us all.
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April 28, 2026
Memory, Tradition, and the Unity of the Classical Mind: Dr Armand D'Angour on the Lyrical Poetry of Horace
<p dir="ltr">Dr Armand D'Angour turns our attention to the lyrical poetry of Horace, as it is placed within the Greek musical and poetic inheritance. With close readings of key odes, he shows us how Horace uses Greek lyric meters to achieve something both rhythmic and aural. Constructed around the themes of love, time, and political life, these poems can be seen as carefully constructed personnae, rather than autobiographical confession. This lyric poetry is shown to be a disciplined artform that carries inherited Greek forms into something distinctly Roman, without disturbing the musical intelligence beneath them. These poems were not written to be read silently, but were deeply connected to music, rhythm, and memory. By recovering this dimension, Professor D'Angour illuminates Horace not just as a literary figure, but as a poet working within a living tradition of song in which meaning is brought about through the interplay of sound, structure, and voice. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <h2 dir="ltr">Authors and Works Mentioned in this Episode:</h2> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Horace's Odes</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Homer's Iliad and Odyssey</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Sappho</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Alcaeus</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Anacreon</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Pindar</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Catullus</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Virgil</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Aristotle</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Plato</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Epicurus</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Augustus</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Maecenas</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p>
March 26, 2026
How Dante Can Save Your Life with Rod Dreher
<p dir="ltr">Great works of literature are often regarded with admiration and even intimidation for their role as the lofty subject of scholarly analysis, but these books were not written for the halls of the university alone. These works were composed to be used: insofar as they are able to challenge, guide, and transform the lives of those who come into their possession. The redemptive power of philosophy and literature is something we focus on often at the college, but few people today model this power as well as Rod Dreher. In this lecture, we find a potent example of the enduring vitality that exists in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. The resulting expanse is an account of literature as something spiritually operative. Dante's poem becomes, in Dreher's telling, a work not only to be interpreted but to be inhabited, as a means by which grace can possess the imagination and heal what argument alone cannot. </p> <p dir="ltr">Subscribe for updates at <a href= "http://www.ralston.ac/subscribe">www.ralston.ac/subscribe</a> </p> <h2 dir="ltr">Authors and Works Mentioned in this Episode:</h2> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Inferno</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Purgatorio</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Paradiso</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Augustine's Confessions</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Julian of Norwich</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Benedict XVI</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Thomas Aquinas</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue</p> </li> </ul>
February 17, 2026
The Practice of Loving Wisdom | A Conversation with Spencer Klavan and Connor Livingston
<p dir="ltr">The great books have never been more accessible, yet we live in a moment increasingly drawn away from them. Their value and transformative power are immediate, but many lack the patience and desire to become truly acquainted with the great minds of antiquity. In this installment of the Career and Life Conversation series, Dr Spencer Klavan joins Ralston College Fellow Connor Livingston for a discussion on the utility of the classics, the confluence of religion and philosophy, and the role of embodiment in human reason, along with what this reveals about artificial intelligence. From Athens to Jerusalem, from Plato to Paul, this exchange offers lofty reflections alongside practical insights for those seeking wisdom in an age that does not make it a priority. </p> <p dir="ltr">If you have found these conversations meaningful, please consider supporting our work at <a href= "http://www.ralston.ac/donate">www.ralston.ac/donate</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Subscribe for updates at: <a href= "http://www.ralston.ac/subscribe">www.ralston.ac/subscribe</a></p> <h2 dir="ltr">Authors and Works Mentioned in this Episode:</h2> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Athanasius's On the Incarnation</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">C.S. Lewis</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Plato's Republic</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Aristotle's De Anima and Nicomachean Ethics</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Socrates</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">St. Paul</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Augustine's Confessions</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Disputation of the Holy Sacrament by Raphael</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets </p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Dante</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Aquinas</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Shakespeare</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle </p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Owen Barfield</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p>
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