The Western Traditions Podcast

Episode XIB.003 - Genesis 2:4 - 25

Made from earth, and from each other, man and woman meet in Paradise. The meaning of marriage. The eschatology of Genesis.

Episode X.002 - Paleo-American Origins I: The Beringia Theory

The Beringia Theory. Clovis points and the extinction of the megafauna.

Episode XIB.002 - Genesis 1:1 - 2:3

The creation of the world in seven days. Allegory and Anagogy. The textual loop of Scripture.

Episode II.31 - Greek Philosophy III: The Trial of Socrates

Socrates stands trial for impiety. The Apology and the Crito. The similarities between Socrates and Christ.

Episode II.30 - Greek Drama III: Aristophanes

Aristophanes mocks and derides the latest developments in Athenian society, and lambasts the motives for the seemingly endless Peloponnesus War. His play, The Clouds, takes aim at Socrates and all philosophers.

Episode X.001 - Introduction to the Americas

Native Americans are the real westerners. As an outsider, in this series, I investigate the history and culture of more than ten thousand years in the Americas.

Episode XII.001 - Introduction to the Western Traditions Curriculum

Implementing the Western Traditions Podcast as a personal curriculum. For homeschool or for adults.

Episode II.29 - Greek Philosophy II: Introduction to Socrates

Introduction to Socrates and Plato and the tetralogies of dialogues. First Principles. Post-war Athens. Analysis of Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro.

Episode XIB.001 - Introduction to the Old Testament

The Bible is our book. No matter which religious tradition to which you belong, even if you are non-religious, this is your book. This is your patrimony, just as the Iliad and the Odyssey and the works of Aristotle and Plato are your inheritance.

Episode IX.04 - The Dead Internet

On the periphery of this online cemetery, we grubby humans rifle through the garbage, looking for a movie on Netflix or flicking past several hundred TikTok’s, all the while, beyond the gates of the graveyard, the bots replicate and babble to one another - the animated, digital ruins of a society that once built pyramids and dared to cross the oceans in ships powered by the wind.