Johnathan Bi

88 - Capitalism vs Aristocracy: Who Actually Had it Better? Tocqueville Seminar ft. Alpha School

87 - Why Odysseus Cries When Listening to the Trojan War Stories | Gregory Nagy

86 - How to Choose a Good Wife (According to Odysseus)

85 - Odysseus and the Art of Lying | Homer's Odyssey Explained

84 - What Happens to Odysseus After the Odyssey? Telegony, Inferno, Ulysses, Republic Compared

83 - Homer Didn't Write The Odyssey, This is Who Did | Harvard’s Gregory Nagy

82 - America's War on Christianity | Tocqueville on Religion

81 - Democracy with American Characteristics | Tocqueville on America's Industrial Aristocracy

80 - The American Love of Acquisition & Commerce | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle

79 - The 4 Best Books to Prepare for AI (of the Hundreds I’ve Read)

78 - The Path to God is Through Sex | Rice Professor Jeff Kripal

77 - The High Integrity Way Great Men Chase Fame | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle on the American Founding

76 - Comparing the World Religions with Rice's Jeff Kripal

75 - Inside the CIA’s Psychic Spy Program | Stargate

74 - Only Treachery Can Defend Freedom | Machiavelli's Domestic Policy Explained

73 - Nietzsche Was NOT an Atheist. He Was a Mystic

72 - The Chinese Billionaire Paying People to Have Kids | James Liang on Demography

71 - The Overwhelming Evidence for Miracles Suppressed By Authorities | Princeton's Dale Allison

70 - The Struggle for Recognition | Axel Honneth

69 - The Case for Imperialism | Machiavelli's Foreign Policy Explained

68 - Christology, Apocalypse, Ressurection | Dale Allison on the New Testament

67 - The Incredible Results of AI Learning | A New Philosophy of Education

66 - How a $17B Investor Beat Wall Street By Reading Shakespeare | Jim O'Shaughnessy

65 - Answering Tough Questions on Machiavelli’s Ethics | Q&A

64 - Why Good People Make Terrible Leaders | Machiavelli's Ethics Explained

63 - Capital is Cheap, This is The Last Scarce Resource | USV’s Albert Wenger

62 - Reject Globalism, Embrace Patriotism | Maurizio Viroli

61 - Your Face Shapes Your Destiny | Shelley's Frankenstein Explained

60 - A Masterclass on Machiavelli’s Unorthodox Christianity | Maurizio Viroli

59 - Rebel Oxford Philosopher Declares War on Universities | Michael Gibson

58 - The Next Best Alternative to Libertarianism | Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale’s Political Philosophy

57 - How This Wittgenstein Scholar Built a $16 Billion Startup | Marcus Ryu, Oxford

56 - He Studied the Great Books and Built a $2 Billion Startup | Francis Pedraza

55 - How Following His Curiosity Made Him a Fortune | Colin Moran, Oxford Historian

54 - The One Thing You Must Never Outsource to AI | Brendan McCord

53 - Embrace the Erotic | Plato's Symposium Explained

52 - The Problem with Modern Dating | David O’Connor on Nietzsche, Plato, Christ

51 - Harvard Professor’s Masterclass on Machiavelli | Harvey Mansfield

50 - Debate: Can AI Write a Great Book?

49 - Plato’s Guide to Virtue | Cornell’s Rachana Kamtekar

48 - A Systematic Critique of Stoic Philosophy | Cicero's Definibus

47 - Why You Self-Sabotage | Rachana Kamtekar on Plato’s Moral Psychology

46 - Introduction to Ancient Skepticism | Tad Brennan on Sextus Empiricus

45 - How Stoics Reconcile Determinism & Free Will | Cornell's Tad Brennan

44 - The Signs that AI is Conscious | Imperial's Murray Shanahan

43 - AI's Killer-App Isn't Chatbots, It's Social | Linkedin Founder Reid Hoffman

42 - Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics

41 - The Slave Who Was Free | Berkeley’s AA Long on Epictetus

40 - The Case for Emotional Pacifism | Martha Nussbaum on Britten’s War Requiem

39 - Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy | AA Long on Stoicism, Skepticism, Epicureanism

38 - Why Plato Hated Democracy | GRF Ferrari on the Republic

37 - The First 80 years of AI, and What Comes Next | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge

35 - How to Prepare for the AI Age: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler Cowen

34 - Plato’s Critique of Hookup Culture | GRF Ferrari on the Phaedrus

33 - Making Sense of Christianity's Violent Past | Carlos Eire

32 - Introduction to Stoic Philosophy | Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained

31 - Yale Historian Uncovers Evidence for Levitation | Carlos Eire on Christian Miracles

30 - The Surprising Source of Shakespeare’s Inspiration | Stephen Greenblatt

29 - How Shakespeare Bought His Way into the Upper Class | Stephen Greenblatt

27 - Rousseau's Case for Censorship | Christopher Kelly on Rousseau

26 - Nietzsche: There is No Objective Right or Wrong | Brian Leiter

25 - Rousseau's Second Discourse: Why The Poor Embrace Inequality

24 - Withdrawal vs. Political Action | Katharina Volk on Roman Epicureanism

23 - How to Combine Action & Contemplation | Katharina Volk on Cicero & Caesar

22 - Can Love Survive Marriage? Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare

21 - Stoicism is a Coping Mechanism | Katharina Volk on Cato

20 - Why “Innovation” Was a Crime in the 16th Century

19 - Overcoming Nihilism with Nietzsche | Robert Pippin

18 - Self-Esteem Requires External-Validation | Fred Neuhouser on Rousseau

17 - Selfish Heroes Make Great Leaders | Christopher Kelly on Rousseau

16 - Rousseau's First Discourse: Science & Art Are Poisoning You

15 - Reject Free Will, Become Who You Are | Brian Leiter on Nietzsche

14 - Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality: Masters vs. Slaves

13 - Lecture VII: The One Who Withholds | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

12 - Lecture VI: The Triumph of Modernity | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

11 - Lecture V: The Christian Revelation | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

10 - Lecture IV: The Scapegoat Mechanism | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

9 - Lecture III: Mimetic Rivalry and Girard's Theodicy | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

8 - Lecture II: Mimetic Desire and Original Sin | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

7 - Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory