Thinking Class

About Thinking Class

Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast and documentary series exploring the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping Britain, the Anglosphere, and the wider West. 20,000 subscribers and 2 million plays across all platforms. Hosted by John Gillam, founder of the Albion Institute (Lord Nigel Biggar CBE serves as Advisory Board Chair) and creator of The Call of England and the forthcoming Call of America documentary series. Each episode brings together historians, philosophers, theologians, economists, and public intellectuals for conversations that go beyond the news cycle. Guests have included David Starkey, Lord Jonathan Sumption, Lord Nigel Biggar, Iain McGilchrist, Peter Hitchens, R.R. Reno, Auron MacIntyre, Patrick Deneen, Lionel Shriver, David Goodhart, Carl Trueman, Eric Kaufmann, Carrie Gress, Katharine Birbalsingh, Kathleen Stock, Frank Furedi, Rob Henderson, Robert Tombs, and many more. If you value serious conversation about England, Britain, the Anglosphere, and the forces shaping our civilisation, this is the show for you. New episodes every Thursday. Albion Institute: albioninstitute.org Substack: thinkingclass.substack.com YouTube: youtube.com/@ThinkingClass X: x.com/thinkingclasses Contact: thinkingclasspod@gmail.com (mailto:thinkingclasspod@gmail.com)

Publisher

John Gillam

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Nov 2023

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

154 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   #149 — Marie Kawthar Daouda — They Told Her She Was A Victim Of The West. She Became Its Greatest Defender.

   Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda is a French-Moroccan scholar at the University of Oxford and the author of Not Your Victim. In this conversation we think out loud about: Why a French-Moroccan Oxford scholar wrote a love letter to British civilisationMacIntyre and the question of story — what happens when a civilisation loses its narrativeThe French Revolution as spiritual catastrophe and its influence on the modern universityVictimhood as cultural capital and what it does to the people it claims to l...

2. 

   8 Oct 2026

   #148 - Bernard Hibbs - They Gave Up Everything The Modern World Tells You To Want And They Say They Are Happier Than You

   Bernard Hibbs is a member of the Bruderhof; an intentional Christian community of three hundred people living in East Sussex without money, without mortgages, and without personal possessions. Everything is held in common and if someone needs something, they ask and they receive it. The Bruderhof have lived this way for over a hundred years. In this conversation we think out loud about: How three hundred people actually live without moneyThe founding of the Bruderhof in nineteen-twenties Germ...

3. 

   1 Oct 2026

   #147 - Father Luke Dysinger OSB - The Last Time Western Civilisation Collapsed One Institution Saved Everything. And It Did It By Accident.

   Father Luke Dysinger is a Benedictine monk of Saint Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo, California. He trained as a physician, practised family medicine, and at the age of 27 walked away from it all because he fell in love with a way of life centred on prayer. He studied at the Benedictine House of Studies at Oxford, holds a doctorate in patristic theology, and is now a professor of theology and a bioethicist. In this conversation we think out loud about: — Why a trained physician walked away from me...

Who has been a guest on Thinking Class

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ryszard Legutko
• Mark Walsh
• Ed Davies
• Philip Pilkington
• Lois McLatchie Miller

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

570,335

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

42 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100

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Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

75

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