The Ralston College Podcast
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The Ralston College Podcast
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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The Sophia Lectures With Heather Heying - Lecture 1: Foundations
In this opening lecture, Dr Heather Heying invites listeners on an exploration of the deep structures that underlie both scientific inquiry and the hu...
Making Sense of Complex Systems with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
In this informal and wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Blackwood, Drs Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying reflect on the formative influences that...
Katabasis and Return: A Conversation With Mari Otsu About Her Time at Ralston College
Mari Otsu joins Stephen Blackwood for a deeply personal conversation about her journey through the wounds of materialism, ideology, and spiritual forg...
Society, Technology and Philology with Dr Jason Pedicone: Thoughts on the Study of the Classical Humanities at the Dawn of the Digital Revolution
Ralston College presents a lecture by Dr Jason Pedicone, distinguished scholar and classicist and the co-founder and President of the Paideia Institut...
Nature in Augustine’s Confessions
Ralston College presents a talk by Christopher Snook, Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University, on St. Augustine’s great autobio...
Douglas Murray: Reconstructing our Culture | Renewal and Renaissance: A Ralston Symposium
Douglas Murray, revered cultural critic and author, delivers the highlight of Ralston College’s symposium of “Renewal and Renaissance,” a lecture expl...
What does it take to spark a new Renaissance?
In February 2025, Ralston College hosted a landmark symposium in Savannah, Georgia, bringing together leading thinkers, artists, educators, and studen...
Why We Tell Stories: Greg Hurwitz & Jonathan Pageau in Conversation
“Why We Tell Stories” is a discussion between Greg Hurwitz & Jonathan Pageau which took place on January 31, 2025. In this exchange, two prominent pro...
The Enduring Consolation of Philosophy with Stephen Blackwood
“The Enduring Consolation of Philosophy” is the keynote lecture delivered by Dr Stephen Blackwood at the 2024 Symposium of Medieval and Renaissance st...
Dr Iain McGilchrist in Conversation with Ralston College’s Students
In this intimate question and answer session, conducted in March 2024 with the students enrolled in Ralston College’s MA in the Humanities, the world-...
The Sophia Lectures with Iain McGilchrist - Lecture 3: Finitude and the Infinite
Beginning with the English Romantic poets, McGilchrist shows how these artists resisted the habits of perception that can be associated with the brain...
The Sophia Lectures with Iain McGilchrist - Lecture 2: Symmetry and Asymmetry
In his second Sophia Lecture, Dr Iain McGilchrist gives a bracing, counterintuitive account of the fundamental categories of our experience of the wor...
The Sophia Lectures with Iain McGilchrist - Lecture 1: Division and Union
This lecture, like the very essence of Ralston College’s mission, explores the profound interplay between division and union—a relationship that illum...
Dr Iain McGilchrist on the Cultivation of Wisdom
A conversation between Dr Iain McGilchrist, neuropsychiatrist, philosopher, and literary critic, and Dr Stephen Blackwood, President of Ralston Colleg...
The Education of Iain McGilchrist, Part II: Medical School and Beyond
The second part of a conversation between the renowned literary scholar and psychiatrist Dr Iain McGilchrist and Ralston College president Dr Stephen...
The Education of Iain McGilchrist, Part I: From Winchester College to All Souls
A conversation between Dr Iain McGilchrist, the renowned polymath, and Dr Stephen Blackwood, President of Ralston College, about Dr McGilchrist’s form...
We Live in the Flicker: T. S. Eliot and Dante on the Spaces Between
Ralston College presents a talk by Christopher Snook, Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University, on the influence of Dante’s Purg...
The Other Side of Despair: The Search for Meaning in T.S Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
Ralston College presents a talk by Christopher Snook, Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University, on T.S. Eliot’s modernist master...
Jay Parini on Why Poetry Matters
A conversation between Dr Jay Parini, a prolific author and the D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College, and Dr Ste...
Polytheism and the Polis: The Drama of the Individual Before the Self with Paul Epstein | Ralston College
Ralston College Humanities MA
Dr Paul Epstein is a distinguished classicist and Professor Emeritus of Classics at Oklahoma State Univers...
Levels of Intelligibility, Levels of the Self: Realizing the Dialectic with Dr John Vervaeke | Ralston College
Ralston College Humanities MA
Dr John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist and philosopher who explores the intersections of Neoplatonism, cognitiv...
Knowing God in the Book of Job | Dr David Novak with Ralston College
Ralston College Humanities MA
Dr David Novak is a distinguished professor at the University of Toronto, renowned theologian, and esteeme...
Unlocking Consciousness with Dr Stephen Wolfram: AI & Philosophy | Ralston College
Ralston College Humanities MA
Dr Stephen Wolfram is a renowned computer scientist, physicist, and entrepreneur who earned his PhD in par...
From Homer to Gutenberg: Ancient Greek and Its Afterlives with Dr David Butterfield
David Butterfield is a renowned classicist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. His work centres on the critical study and teaching of...
Education without Indoctrination: Can It Exist? Stephen Blackwood, John Vervaeke & David Butterfield
Stephen Blackwood is the founding President of Ralston College, with advanced degrees in Classics and Religion and visiting positions at Harvard, Toro...
Self and Story: In Conversation with Gregg Hurwitz
Gregg Hurwitz, the New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X series and a storyteller whose work spans many mediums and genres, in conversatio...
Language, Thought, and Style: The Articulated Logos in Victorian Literature with Michael D. Hurley
Dr Michael Hurley, Professor of Literature and Theology at Trinity College in the University of Cambridge, delivers a lecture to students in Ralston C...
Radical Thoughts on Human Nature: Stephen Blackwood at Hillsdale College
In this lecture, delivered on March 30, 2023, as part of the Drummond Lecture Series at Hillsdale College, Dr. Stephen Blackwood—the founding presiden...
The Medieval Cosmos as Permanent Apocalypse with Jonathan Pageau
In his lecture, Jonathan Pageau presents a thoughtful examination of the Last Judgment through the lens of a late-11th-century mosaic, challenging the...
Serious Play: Renaissance Wisdom and Cosmic Choreography | Sophia Lecture 2023 Part 5/5
In the culminating fifth lecture of the Sophia Lecture series, Professor Douglas Hedley culminates his exploration by delving into play's theological...
Unveiling Aesthetics: Art, Suffering, and Transcendence | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 4/5
In the fourth Sophia Lecture, Professor Douglas Hedley explores the transformative power of play in art and human consciousness, examining its philoso...
Wisdom in Paradox: The Seriousness of Play | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 3/5
In the third lecture of the Sophia Lecture series, Professor Douglas Hedley embarks on an intellectual journey that explores the enigmatic nature of p...
Exploring the Inner Word: Play, Poetry, Philosophy | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 2/5
In this second episode of the Sophia Lectures, Professor Douglas Hedley from the University of Cambridge embarks on a deep exploration into the theme...
The Spirit of Play in Shaping Culture, Creativity, and Spirituality | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 1/5
University of Cambridge philosopher, Professor Douglas Hedley, delves into the concept of play and its vital role in understanding the human condition...
The Spirit of Play: A Conversation with Professor Douglas Hedley and Dr Stephen Blackwood
In the inaugural episode of the Sophia Lecture Series, Ralston College President Stephen Blackwood and distinguished Cambridge Professor Douglas Hedle...
Ep. 30 - From the Cave of Pythagoras: A Lecture and Discussion with Douglas Hedley
Ralston College presents a lecture by University of Cambridge Professor Douglas Hedley on the influential and mysterious pre-Socratic philosopher Pyth...
Ep. 29 - Marie Kawthar Daouda: Baudelaire and the Creation of the Poetic Self
Ralston College presents a lecture by Marie Kawthar Daouda on the infamous French poet, Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire published one collection of poe...
Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self
Ralston College presents a lecture by Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s conception of self in Book I of his ‘Treatise of Human Nature.’ The idea of ‘the self...
Ep. 27 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part II
Ralston College presents a lecture by Alan Charles Kors on Voltaire's great work 'The Philosophical Letters.' Profoundly impressed by the English scie...
Ep. 26 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part I
Ralston College presents a two-part series of lectures by Alan Charles Kors on Voltaire's great work 'The Philosophical Letters.' Profoundly impressed...