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Socrates in the City

Socrates in the City

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Socrates in the City is the acclaimed series of conversations on “life, God, and other small topics,” hosted by Eric Metaxas. Starting with the philosopher Socrates’s famous words that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” Metaxas thought it would be valuable to create a forum that might encourage busy New Yorkers in thinking about the bigger questions in life. He founded Socrates in the City in 2000. Metaxas is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of MARTIN LUTHER, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT,...

Episodes (200)

Massimo Pigliucci: What is Stoicism?

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Paul Kingsnorth: Against the Machine

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Oct 21, 20251:05:13pending

Joe Loconte: The War for Middle – Earth

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Oct 3, 202556:17pending

Arthur Brooks: What is Happiness?

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Sep 19, 20251:01:05pending

William Lane Craig: Is the Existence of God Provable?

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Sep 5, 20251:02:41pending

Robert P. George: We Need Free Speech the Way the Body Needs Oxygen to Survive

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Aug 22, 20251:08:51pending

Olivia Reingold: What Political Polarization Means for America

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Melanie Phillips: How Jews and Christians Built the West—and Why Only They Can S...

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Jul 25, 20251:11:40pending

Larry Arnn: The Progressive Assault on the American Idea

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Jul 11, 20251:02:04pending

William Hurlbut: The Boundaries of Humanity

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Jun 27, 202554:58pending

Ross Douthat: Why Everyone Should Be Religious

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Jun 23, 202553:19pending

John West: Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

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May 30, 202559:08pending

Andrew Klavan: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness

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May 23, 20251:05:32pending

James Lindsey: Exposing the Insanity of Modern Academia

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Apr 18, 202557:51pending

Iain McGilchrist

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Katherine Birbalsingh: Is Classical Education the Key to Reviving the West?

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Mar 20, 202545:54pending

James Orr: Maintaining Orthodoxy in an Evolving West

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Mar 13, 20251:01:46pending

Konstantin Kisin: Can Western Civilization Survive without Free Speech?

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Mar 6, 202559:54pending

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – America: Past, Present, and Future

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Aug 30, 20241:24:23pending

Roger Kimball: The Intellectual Life

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Jun 2, 202428:48pending

Michael Wilkerson: Why America Matters

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Jun 2, 202449:36pending

John West: Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism

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May 28, 202451:55pending

Casey Luskin: The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith

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May 28, 202438:09pending

Louis Markos: Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christia...

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May 22, 20241:05:18pending

Louis Markos: From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Fa...

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May 22, 202458:45pending

John Zmirak: No Second Amendment, No First

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May 22, 20241:05:34pending

Andrew Klavan: The Truth and Beauty Part Two

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May 17, 20241:18:51pending

Hadley Arkes: Mere Natural Law

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May 17, 202420:51pending

Margarita Mooney Clayton: The Wounds of Beauty

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May 16, 20241:22:01pending

Scott Atlas: The Fight to Stop COVID-19 from Destroying America

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May 15, 20241:20:42pending

Anthony Bradley: Heroic Fraternities

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May 9, 20241:09:11pending

Heather Mac Donald: When Race Trumps Merit

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May 9, 20241:17:55pending

James O’Keefe: American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century

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May 7, 20241:09:09pending

Dr. John West: C. S. Lewis and Scientism

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May 7, 20241:07:43pending

Dennis Prager: Israel’s Place in the World

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May 1, 20241:18:15pending

Steven Collins: Discovering the City of Sodom

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Apr 29, 20241:18:29pending

Charlie Duke: The Apollo 16 Moon Landing

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Aug 3, 20231:23:38pending

David Berlinski: Human Nature

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Aug 3, 20231:13:44pending

James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?

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Aug 3, 20231:27:57pending

Eugenia Constantinou: The Crucifixion of the King of Glory

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Aug 3, 20231:20:05pending

Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of Humanity

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Aug 3, 20231:20:53pending

Michael Medved: God’s Hand on America

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Jun 27, 20231:00:33pending

Yeonmi Park: While Time Remains

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Jun 1, 20231:21:50pending

Andrew Klavan: The Truth and Beauty

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May 16, 20231:13:39pending

Stephen Meyer: The Return of the God Hypothesis

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Jul 8, 20221:19:10pending

Baroness Caroline Cox: The Threat to the West's Cultural and Political Heritage

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William Hurlbut: The Science and Politics of Stem Cells: Is There a Way Forward?

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May 29, 20201:15:36pending

Sir John Polkinghorne: Belief in God in an Age of Science

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May 1, 20201:26:49pending

Peter Kreeft: Making Sense Out of Suffering

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Apr 9, 20201:27:19pending

Sir John Polkinghorne: Can a Scientist Pray?

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Apr 3, 20201:14:53pending