Listen "Finding the Mean: Tim Mather"
Episode Synopsis
Tim Mather tells us about bringing Aristotle into contemporary life, and about keeping a famous family tree alive. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. Aristotle instructing Alexander the Great [cropped]. CC BY-SA 4.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Robert Caro The Passage of Power Anton Chekhov "The Boor" Winston Churchill "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." John Cotton / Richard Mather The Bay Psalm Book Sebastian De Grazia Machiavelli in Hell Charles Dickens David Copperfield Anthony Doerr Cloud Cuckoo Land Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Benjamin Franklin Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Finding Your Roots Jessica Hagy Indexed Michael Haneke The White Ribbon Samantha Harvey Orbital David Hume Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities Immanuel Kant The Critique of JudgmentSøren Kierkegaard The Sickness Unto Death John Landis An American Werewolf in London John Locke Ludacris Alasdair MacIntyre After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory Abijah P. Marvin The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Cotton Mather On Witchcraft David McCullough Morrissey Autobiography Mihkel Mutt The Inner Immigrant Mike Myers "Sprockets" Nextdoor Plato POYKPAC Comedy "Hipster Olympics" Vidkun Quisling Richard P. Rumelt The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists Douglas Rushkoff Get Back in the Box Sons of the American Revolution The Smiths "Ask" Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Leo Tolstoy Childhood, Boyhood, Youth Leo Tolstoy "The Death of Ivan Ilych" Leo Tolstoy "The Kreuzer Sonata" Leo Tolstoy "Where There Is Love, There God Is Also" Stefan Zweig The World of Yesterday
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