The Sower

The widely circulated first draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights was a key influence on the Declaration of Independence.

Chris Anadale interviews law professor Nathaniel Fouch about the influence of the Declaration of Independence on state constitutions, the authority of America's founding principles, different responses to Jefferson's egalitarian rhetoric, and more.

Nathaniel Fouch is Assistant Professor of Law at Capital U...

A content focused certificate program for classical school teachers & other adults.

Josh Bowman and Josh Herring discuss the Ciceronian Society’s most ambitious project to date: The Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies, which will be directed by Dr. Herring.

The Logres Institute aims to provide the education you wish you had received. Designed with the busy professional in mind, our certification programs delive...

We honor Jane Calvert for her book Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson.

Plenary panel from the 2026 Ciceronian Society Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, March 12, 2026. Featuring speakers Joshua Bowman, Michael Maibach, James Patterson, and Jane Calvert.

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Penman-Founding-Biography-John-Dickinson/dp/0197541690

Joshua Bowman, Introduction
Michael Maibach, About Prof. Storing
James Patt...

Working to make it normative to stay in your local place for higher education.

Josh Bowman interviews Dr. Nick Ellis, Founder and CEO of Christian Halls International (CHI), which is “reimagining collegiate education through local learning communities that form virtuous people who contribute to flourishing places.”

We revisit the unique model (unique at least in America) of CHI and how this quickly-growing network of ed...

Josh Bowman interviews Dr. Josh Herring on his new book, Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis's Images of Gender. We discuss Lewis’s fiction and non-fiction, and how the great Christian apologist, scholar, and author gives us ways to think through masculinity and femininity. 

Josh Herring is the Curriculum Program Manager for the Rafiki Foundation and Director of the Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies.

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How do we humanize economics? Are formal & final causes necessary for economics?

Plenary panel from the 2026 Ciceronian Society Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, March 12, 2026. Featuring presentations by Michael Thomas, Steven Miller, Paul Mueller, and Diana Thomas. Panel sponsored by the Menard Family Center for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University, https://www.creighton.edu/menard-center-for-economic-inquiry

Michael Thomas,...

Chris Anadale interviews Madeleine Austin and Matthew Young about the value of place and their home of Pittsboro, North Carolina.

Madeleine Austin lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. When Madeleine is not playing her banjo, she works as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserves. She also received the Ciceronian Society's 2...

Chris Anadale interviews scholar Marco Andreacchio about Shakespeare as a philosophical poet.

Marco Antonio Andreacchio was awarded a doctorate from the University of IIlinois for his interpretation of Sino-Japanese philosophical classics in dialogue with Western counterparts and a doctorate from Cambridge University for his work on Dante’s Platonic interpretation of religious authority. He has taught at various higher e...

Responses to modernism in the three Ransom novels (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength).

Plenary panel from the 2026 Ciceronian Society Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, March 12, 2026. Featuring presentations by Joshua Bowman, Joshua Herring, Sean Hadley, Madeleine Austin, and Scott Postma.

0:00 Episode Intro
1:40 Bowman
9:25 Herring
29:28 Hadley
43:45 Austin
59:30 Postma
1:22:20 Q & ...

Josh Bowman shares information about the Ciceronian Society's inaugural Fall Symposium, October 11-13, 2026 in Holland, Michigan. He also looks back at our Omaha Conference (March 2026) and forward to our March 2027 Conference in Virginia Beach.

Josh Bowman is Executive Director of the Ciceronian Society.

Chris Anadale is podcast editor for the Ciceronian Society, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University...

Life and works of the Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).

Ethan Alexander-Davey teaches political science at Campbell University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ciceronian Society. He is co-editor, with Richard Avramenko, of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times and Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority and Inequality both published by Lexington/Blooms...

Life and works of the Scottish man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).

Ethan Alexander-Davey teaches political science at Campbell University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ciceronian Society. He is co-editor, with Richard Avramenko, of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times and Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority and Inequality, both published by Lexington/Bloom...

Chris Anadale interviews Florida lawyer Jeff Bristol about his home in Plant City.

Jeffrey Bristol is an independent scholar and a lawyer who has been a regular at Ciceronian Society conferences. His popular writings range from policy and military essays to cultural criticism, with a focus on general anthropological theory and legal and political philosophy as applied to American life. His degrees include an AA in Persian-Farsi fro...

Josh Bowman talks with John Wilsey about his new book, God and Country: Upholding Faith, History, and National Identity (B&H Academic Press, 2026). We discuss historiography, why history matters for Christians, the importance of virtue for historical thinking, and what it means to have a “rightly ordered patriotism.”

John Wilsey is Professor of Church History and Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Church...

Josh Bowman welcomes 2026 Herbert J. Storing Prize Nominee Dr. Brooke Barbier.

Brooke is a public historian who received her PhD in American history from Boston College, researching Boston’s social and cultural life during and after the American Revolution. In 2013 she founded Ye Olde Tavern Tours, which offers tours of Boston’s historic sites and taverns (beer is included!). She is the author of King Hancock: The Radic...

Josh Bowman welcomes Albert Norton back to the show. Bert is a practicing attorney and author of several books on the tension between religion and postmodernism. Today, we specifically consider how understanding this tension might inform the life of modern churches and intellectual discipleship. 

His most recent book is The Discovered Self, concerning what he regards as a dangerous inward turn to the therapeutic worldview. We ...

This special episode is an excerpt from a panel at our 2025 annual conference in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

The panel title was "Philip Rieff: Cultural Conflict, Religion and the Self." After a prayer and brief introduction, we hear the following speakers.

First, Michael Harding of Montgomery College, with "Rieff’s Use of Nietzsche in Deathworks."

Second, William Batchelder of Waynesburg University, on "The Impossibili...

Еthan Alexander-Davey and Glenn Cronin discuss the life and work of Lev Tikhomirov, who, in his mid thirties, abandoned revolutionary terrorism to become one of the most prominent defenders of the Russian Monarchy and Orthodox Christianity. The conversation focuses on Dr. Cronin’s recent book The Enduring Enigma of Lev Tikhomirov, which surveys the writer’s major works on revolutionary ideology, monarchical governm...

Josh Bowman chats with Dr. Wayne Braudrick, lead pastor at Frisco Bible Church in Frisco, Texas and member of the Ciceronian Society. We discuss intellectual discipleship, the life of the mind among evangelical Christians, preaching, the importance of place for pastors and Bible study, and much more. 

Frisco Bible Church: https://friscobiblechurch.snappages.site/ 

Josh’s article on Intellectual Discipleship: https:/...