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Yeonmi Park: While Time Remains
North Korean defector Yeonmi Park joins Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas to discuss her latest book WHILE TIME...
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Mary Harrington and Justin Brierley: The Quiet Revival of Christianity
In this premiere episode of Socrates Dialogues with Mary Harrington, author and broadcaster Justin Brierley joins her to explore the shifting terrain of the New Atheist movement and the surprising...
Heather Mac Donald, Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball and Heather Mac Donald: How Political Correctness Hijacked the Arts
What gets to be called art—and who decides? In this wide-ranging Socrates Dialogues conversation, New York-based thinkers, writers, and art admirers Heather Mac Donald and Roger Kimball explore the definition...
Peter Kreeft
Peter Kreeft and Eric Metaxas: Charlie Kirk, Martyrdom, and Dying for the Truth
What does it mean to speak the truth in an age hostile to the Truth? And why is it that those who dare to do so — whether Socrates, Jesus...
Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo Pigliucci: What is Stoicism?
What is the history of Stoicism and how does one practice it today? Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas sits down with professor and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, author of the popular How to...
Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth: Against the Machine
Is there an unnamed force ― which we all feel ― reshaping what it means to be human? Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas is joined by the furiously...
Paul Kingsnorth
Joe Loconte: The War for Middle – Earth
"Evil labors with vast power and perpetual success – in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in." —J.R.R. Tolkien What does it mean to cling to...
Arthur Brooks
Arthur Brooks: What is Happiness?
What is happiness? Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas sits down with Dr. Arthur Brooks to discuss one of the most prevalent questions in our society: What is happiness? The...
William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig: Is the Existence of God Provable?
Can we prove the existence of God? In this Socrates in the City conversation, host Eric Metaxas speaks with William Lane Craig—Emeritus Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of...
Robert George
Robert P. George: We Need Free Speech the Way the Body Needs Oxygen to Survive
Is there an innate human knowledge of Truth? Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas sits down with Robert P. George, Princeton University Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the...
Olivia Reingold
Olivia Reingold: What Political Polarization Means for America
How did Socialism become mainstream in New York City? In this timely and insightful conversation, Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas speaks with NYC-based journalist Olivia Reingold about her...
Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips: How Jews and Christians Built the West—and Why Only They Can Save It
What are the Jewish and Christian foundations of Western society—and why do they matter today? In this insightful conversation, Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas speaks with journalist and...
Larry Arnn
Larry Arnn: The Progressive Assault on the American Idea
What is the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Are these simply historical documents, or could they reflect something divinely inspired? In this conversation, Socrates in the...