New Humanists

These guys are the best. I studied Ancient Greek and Latin at a famous American university with a world-renknown classics department. In all my time there, I never found two people who bring as much vitality to their subject as Ryan and Jonathan. These are the first people I’ll turn to when it comes time for me to teach my boys the languages of their forefathers.

I love “hanging out” with Jonathan and Ryan (every time I listen it makes me sad I don’t have friends like them in real life). I’ve learned so much thanks to this podcast. I am a student of Ancient Greek and Latin, and the New Humanists keep my motivation for learning — so that I can access texts in their original — high. I beg you to never stop recording this podcast!!!

Excellent conversations to listen to. As an educator, provides excellent perspective that has helped to form the way I view my students and my own role within the classroom.

These guys are having a great conversation and inviting us into it. I particularly enjoyed the Voegelin episode as it reminded me to go back and read not just the original voices, but those who have helped hand on the tradition and understood it well in a context closer to my own. This podcast would help anyone who teaches, or still considers himself a student of, the Classical outlook on the world. Additionally, you could learn Latin or Greek from these guys too, in a legitimate method where you would imbibe the culture and the language together rather than amassing grammatical facts and charts to wield in parsing a sentence (and your own intellect) to death.