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Johnathan Bi

Insights from the Great Books 88 - Capitalism vs Aristocracy: Who Actually Had it Better? Tocqueville Seminar ft. Alpha School

Lectures & Interviews on the Great Books

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Published 21 Aug 2026

Duration 1:08:19

Episodes

88-

Capitalism vs Aristocracy: Who Actually Had it Better? Tocqueville Seminar ft. Alpha School

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21 Aug 2026

87-

Why Odysseus Cries When Listening to the Trojan War Stories | Gregory Nagy

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03 Aug 2026

86-

How to Choose a Good Wife (According to Odysseus)

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30 Jul 2026

85-

Odysseus and the Art of Lying | Homer's Odyssey Explained

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25 Jul 2026

84-

What Happens to Odysseus After the Odyssey? Telegony, Inferno, Ulysses, Republic Compared

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18 Jul 2026

83-

Homer Didn't Write The Odyssey, This is Who Did | Harvard’s Gregory Nagy

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14 Jul 2026

82-

America's War on Christianity | Tocqueville on Religion

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06 Jul 2026

81-

Democracy with American Characteristics | Tocqueville on America's Industrial Aristocracy

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04 Jul 2026

80-

The American Love of Acquisition & Commerce | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle

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29 Jun 2026

79-

The 4 Best Books to Prepare for AI (of the Hundreds I’ve Read)

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21 Jun 2026

78-

The Path to God is Through Sex | Rice Professor Jeff Kripal

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30 May 2026

77-

The High Integrity Way Great Men Chase Fame | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle on the American Founding

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18 May 2026

76-

Comparing the World Religions with Rice's Jeff Kripal

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04 May 2026

75-

Inside the CIA’s Psychic Spy Program | Stargate

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04 Apr 2026

74-

Only Treachery Can Defend Freedom | Machiavelli's Domestic Policy Explained

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16 Mar 2026

73-

Nietzsche Was NOT an Atheist. He Was a Mystic

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07 Mar 2026

72-

The Chinese Billionaire Paying People to Have Kids | James Liang on Demography

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21 Feb 2026

71-

The Overwhelming Evidence for Miracles Suppressed By Authorities | Princeton's Dale Allison

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09 Feb 2026

70-

The Struggle for Recognition | Axel Honneth

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02 Feb 2026

69-

The Case for Imperialism | Machiavelli's Foreign Policy Explained

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27 Jan 2026

68-

Christology, Apocalypse, Ressurection | Dale Allison on the New Testament

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18 Jan 2026

67-

The Incredible Results of AI Learning | A New Philosophy of Education

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09 Jan 2026

66-

How a $17B Investor Beat Wall Street By Reading Shakespeare | Jim O'Shaughnessy

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03 Jan 2026

65-

Answering Tough Questions on Machiavelli’s Ethics | Q&A

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29 Nov 2025

64-

Why Good People Make Terrible Leaders | Machiavelli's Ethics Explained

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28 Nov 2025

63-

Capital is Cheap, This is The Last Scarce Resource | USV’s Albert Wenger

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23 Nov 2025

62-

Reject Globalism, Embrace Patriotism | Maurizio Viroli

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07 Nov 2025

61-

Your Face Shapes Your Destiny | Shelley's Frankenstein Explained

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31 Oct 2025

60-

A Masterclass on Machiavelli’s Unorthodox Christianity | Maurizio Viroli

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24 Oct 2025

59-

Rebel Oxford Philosopher Declares War on Universities | Michael Gibson

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09 Oct 2025

58-

The Next Best Alternative to Libertarianism | Palantir Cofounder Joe Lonsdale’s Political Philosophy

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03 Oct 2025

57-

How This Wittgenstein Scholar Built a $16 Billion Startup | Marcus Ryu, Oxford

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27 Sep 2025

56-

He Studied the Great Books and Built a $2 Billion Startup | Francis Pedraza

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23 Sep 2025

55-

How Following His Curiosity Made Him a Fortune | Colin Moran, Oxford Historian

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15 Sep 2025

54-

The One Thing You Must Never Outsource to AI | Brendan McCord

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12 Sep 2025

53-

Embrace the Erotic | Plato's Symposium Explained

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31 Aug 2025

52-

The Problem with Modern Dating | David O’Connor on Nietzsche, Plato, Christ

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22 Aug 2025

51-

Harvard Professor’s Masterclass on Machiavelli | Harvey Mansfield

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16 Aug 2025

50-

Debate: Can AI Write a Great Book?

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08 Aug 2025

49-

Plato’s Guide to Virtue | Cornell’s Rachana Kamtekar

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05 Jul 2025

48-

A Systematic Critique of Stoic Philosophy | Cicero's Definibus

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27 Jun 2025

47-

Why You Self-Sabotage | Rachana Kamtekar on Plato’s Moral Psychology

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09 Jun 2025

46-

Introduction to Ancient Skepticism | Tad Brennan on Sextus Empiricus

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01 Jun 2025

45-

How Stoics Reconcile Determinism & Free Will | Cornell's Tad Brennan

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24 May 2025

44-

The Signs that AI is Conscious | Imperial's Murray Shanahan

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10 May 2025

43-

AI's Killer-App Isn't Chatbots, It's Social | Linkedin Founder Reid Hoffman

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03 May 2025

42-

Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics

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26 Apr 2025

41-

The Slave Who Was Free | Berkeley’s AA Long on Epictetus

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11 Apr 2025

40-

The Case for Emotional Pacifism | Martha Nussbaum on Britten’s War Requiem

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04 Apr 2025

39-

Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy | AA Long on Stoicism, Skepticism, Epicureanism

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28 Mar 2025