Episode 310 · Season 1 Oct 6, 2026 · 49 min
310: The Tower of Babel
Ever heard of a Chiasm? I hear it was the basis for naming the band "Kris Kross."
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Classical Stuff You Should Know
By A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee
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302: Of Mice and Men301: Crime and Punishment Part 2: Electric Boogaloo300: 300299: Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov the Edgelord298: Federalist Papers #10297: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"296: Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"295: Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe294: The Servile State, by Hilaire Belloc293: Cinderella292: Nominalism and William of Ockham291: J.R.R. Tolkien's "Letters from Father Christmas"290: Civil Disobedience by David Henry Thoreau289: John Bunyan and Babe le bœuf bleu288: Macbeth Inverted287: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving286: Prince Darling285: The Democratic Man: Plato's Republic Revisited284: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"283: Beauty and the Beast282: Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen281: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde280: Raskolnikov and Narcissism279: Aesop's Fables278: Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations"277: "Emma," by Jane Austen276: Dyskolos (my favorite DJ)275: Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"274: The Lord of the Flies273: Against Christian Civilization272: Sir Thomas More271: The Socratic Method270: Phaedo269: Plato v. Aristotle268: Hamlet and Socrates and Death267: Plato's Dialogues: Meno266: A Parley with Youth265: The Great Gatsby264: An interview with Davies Owens and Keith McCurdy263: The Ballad of the White Horse and Some Dudes Who Sing262: The Wrath of Khan261: Montessori
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