Young Heretics
Hosted by Spencer Klavan and Young Heretics and Young Heretics hosts · Spencer Klavan
4.9from 5,639 ratings
- 328
- Episodes
- 138
- Transcribed
- 5,639
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About Young Heretics
The classical education you never knew you were missing. Join scholar and writer Spencer Klavan on a tour through the great works of the West. In a world gone mad, we're not alone: the great men and women who went before us have wisdom to guide us. With their help, we can recover truth, beauty, and the stuff that matters.
- Publisher
- Spencer Klavan
- Category
- education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 14 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
138 of 328 episodes have a transcript.
14 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dante's Inferno: The Seven Deadly Sins
17 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Love, Lust, and Lancelot: Dante's Inferno, Canto 5
12 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dante's Inferno, Episode 5: Can Pagans Be Saved?
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Dante's Inferno: The Seven Deadly Sins
Published 14 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so that's what's going on here. And it's important that it's happening to the gluttonous because Dante is making a point about the nature of the body, about the fact that what we eat comes in and out and goes and whatever, and it all in the end gets churned up into slush and muck. And if you devote yourself to the slush and muck. If you make yourself kind of about that, if you make your life about getting more food or getting the right kind of food and you neglect or you subordinate the part of you that, you know, finds higher meaning in things, ultimately you're going to get pelt, you're going to end up pelted by, buried under this gunk because you've made the order of priority wrong. […]
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- YouTube views
- 1,156,635
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 4,463 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,176 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 97 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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