Episodes

  • Episode 07: Interview with Dr. Zena Hitz

    Episode 07: Interview with Dr. Zena Hitz
    Oct 25 2022
    In this episode, Dr. Williams interviews Dr. Zena Hitz, a tutor at St. John's College and the author of Lost In Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book has been reviewed by Jesse Hake in the newest issue of The Principia Journal and it is the subject of this episode's discussion.
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    53 mins
  • Episode 06: Interview with Dr. David Diener

    Episode 06: Interview with Dr. David Diener
    Sep 14 2022
    In this episode, Dr. Williams interviews Dr. David Diener, headmaster of Hillsdale Academy and a lecturing professor of education who has received a BA in philosophy and ancient languages from Wheaton College, as well as an MA in philosophy, MS in history and philosophy of education, and dual PhD in philosophy and philosophy of education from Indiana University. They discuss Dr. Diener's background in classical education and focus on his recently published article examining Augustine's dialogue "The Teacher".
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    37 mins
  • Episode 05: Interview with Dr. Phillip Donnelly

    Episode 05: Interview with Dr. Phillip Donnelly
    Aug 10 2022
    In this episode, Dr. Williams interviews Dr. Phillip Donnelly, professor of literature and Director of the Great Texts Program at Baylor University. They discuss the article Dr. Donnelly has written for the Principia journal entitled “A Grammar for Human Making in Digital Age: Bonaventure on the Mechanical and Liberal Arts”
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    36 mins
  • Episode 04: Interview with Dr. Julia Hejduk of Baylor University

    Episode 04: Interview with Dr. Julia Hejduk of Baylor University
    Jul 13 2022
    In this episode, Dr. Williams interviews Dr. Julia Baylor, professor of classics and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. Baylor University is the university that hosts the Principia Journal.
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    41 mins
  • Episode 03: The True Aims of Classical Education

    Episode 03: The True Aims of Classical Education
    Jun 8 2022
    In this episode, Brian Williams reflects on what aim or end of education has been been in the classical tradition–not merely earning one’s bread learning to live well, “for the final product of our education…. is a man” (from W.B. DeBoise, The Souls of Black Folk)
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    28 mins
  • Episode 02: First Things and Tradition in Classical Education

    Episode 02: First Things and Tradition in Classical Education
    May 12 2022
    In this episode, Brian Williams continues to reflect on tradition, starting with the metaphor of fire: “tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.”
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    27 mins
  • Episode 01: Welcome to the Principia Podcast

    Episode 01: Welcome to the Principia Podcast
    Apr 13 2022
    In this inaugural episode, Dr. Brian Williams muse on the relationship of “first things” (or principia in Latin) and tradition. Do classical educators want to emulate the Greeks and...
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    30 mins