cezanne featured

The $60 Million Cézanne Heist

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Paul Cézanne's Boulloire et Fruits just sold for $60 million. This week's podcast tells the story of the painting's theft and recovery.

May 15, 2019
  Madeline Miller on Circe, Aeneas, Homer, and Virgil

Enchantments

An Interview with Madeline Miller

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The bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles explains how she fell in love with Homer and the world created in the epics.

Vol 5, No 2 / April 16, 2019
Charles Krauthammer and the fight for ideas

Why The Fight for Ideas Is Important

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Charles Krauthammer died last summer. We spoke for this week's podcast to his son Daniel about his final book, The Point of It All, and his lasting legacy.

February 22, 2019
Maurice Samuels on the Dreyfus Affair at 125

Trial of the Century

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One hundred and twenty five years ago, the now-infamous Dreyfus Affair began in France. Maurice Samuels explains why it's still relevant.

Vol 5, No 1 / January 7, 2019
Frederic Raphael on Catullus, love, and hate

Love Hate Relationship

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The Oscar-winning screenwriter (and novelist, critic, and classicist) Frederic Raphael talks about why Catullus is the poet to read if you crave difficulty.

Vol 5, No 1 / January 7, 2019
Kirchick FeaturedJames Kirchick on free speech and campus life

Ivory Tower Blues

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A journalist fights a campaign to protect the most important freedom.

Vol 5, No 1 / January 7, 2019