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Welcome back!! Happy 2026!! After a holiday hiatus, we're starting the year off strong with the Second Annual Inkling Awards for Literary Excellence. As an exciting new term of teaching kicks off for me at the University of Austin, TX, It's a good time to be thinking about some o ...  Show more

It's the most wonderful time of the year: that's right, the Lent of St. Martin! Okay okay, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but the lead-up--known as the season of Advent--is an unbelievably rich tradition filled with deep meaning. On this Young Heretics special, ...  Show more

*Trigger Warning* This episode is for my 300 YTT project, I visit with Allison and Kalen, from my cohort, about the book The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, being mindful as a teacher and our experiences and reflections on the subject of trauma. Enjoy ✌🏼 

Robert Stark is the author of Warflower and a lifelong Alaskan who has truly triumphed over adversity and risen above life's challenges. In this episode, we dive into Robert's experiences as an airborne infantryman in the United States Army, and the defining moments from his d ...

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On this trip, we're looking at the conventional candidate for the first modern novel in English.  Defoe's story of a resourceful man shipwrecked on a d ...

David and Tamler transfer their libidinal energy to Freud's 1917 article "Mourning and Melancholia," in which he tries to understand what's going on with depression, attempts to distinguish it from normal grief, and arrives at some ideas that laid the groundwork for his later the ...  Show more