12 episodes

The Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture invites visiting scholars and faculty authors of new work that helps us to appreciate the shape of life today, both in its dynamism and its timelessness. Here we approach the mysteries of reality with wonder from multiple disciplinary angles, all centered on a commitment to truth. Here authors make their case for how and why their books are important, not just for specialists in their field, but for all of us who seek wisdom for a life well-lived.

The Wheel Collegium Student Fellows and Staff

    • Science

The Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture invites visiting scholars and faculty authors of new work that helps us to appreciate the shape of life today, both in its dynamism and its timelessness. Here we approach the mysteries of reality with wonder from multiple disciplinary angles, all centered on a commitment to truth. Here authors make their case for how and why their books are important, not just for specialists in their field, but for all of us who seek wisdom for a life well-lived.

    Recovering the Lost Art of Dying with Lydia Dugdale

    Recovering the Lost Art of Dying with Lydia Dugdale

    Student fellow talks with Dr. Lydia Dugdale about her new book, The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom. Dr. Dugdale, M.D., speaking from her own experience caring for dying patients, invites us to recover our sense of our own finitude and reconsider what it means to die well.

    • 43 min
    Seeking God with St. John Henry Newman

    Seeking God with St. John Henry Newman

    Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Dr. Ryan J. (Bud) Marr, Associate Provost of Mercy College in Iowa and director of the National Institute for Newman Studies and associate editor of the Newman Studies Journal, about his new book, Seeking God with St. John Henry Newman.

    • 24 min
    Kate Soper - Post-Growth Living: On the Good Life

    Kate Soper - Post-Growth Living: On the Good Life

    Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Kate Soper, philosopher, author, and professor emerita at London Metropolitan university, about her 2022 book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, which proposes a new understanding of the good life that delinks prosperity from endless growth.

    • 55 min
    Joshua Stuchlik — On the Principle of Double Effect

    Joshua Stuchlik — On the Principle of Double Effect

    Collegium Institute undergraduate fellow talks with Dr. Joshua Stuchlik, Professor of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, and assistant editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, about his new book, Intention and Wrongdoing: In Defense of Double Effect.

    • 26 min
    David Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson —Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture

    David Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson —Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture

    Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Dr. David Deavel, associate professor of Theology at University of St. Thomas, and Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, inaugural Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine university. Join us as we discuss Dr. Deavel and Dr. Wilson’s collection, Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West.

    • 46 min
    Nate Anderson — Learning from Nietzsche in the Digital Age

    Nate Anderson — Learning from Nietzsche in the Digital Age

    Collegium Institute staff and students talk with Nate Anderson, deputy editor at Ars Technica and author of In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, about what we can learn from Nietzsche in the 21st century.

    • 30 min

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