“Tolkien believed that the fairytale genre was for everyone,” says Eric Metaxas’s guest, Dr. Holly Ordway, Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute, editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies, and J.R.R. Tolkien expert. This delightful conversation unearths many amazing details and covers topics like how Tolkien came to faith, the important friendship with C.S. Lewis, his ambitions to be a poet, the “Christianness” of the Lord of the Rings saga, Leaf by Niggle, and much more.

The esteemed editor of The New Criterion — a monthly review of the arts and intellectual life – and president of Encounter Books, Roger Kimball, and Socrates host Eric Metaxas, sit down for a delightful conversation on the intellectual life, touching on subjects from the inversion of virtue to political correctness to the effects of the sexual revolution on culture to Artificial Intelligence.

The day after his Socrates in the City event on C.S. Lewis and Scientism, The Discovery Institute’s Dr. John West sits down with Host Eric Metaxas to discuss his documentary Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism.

Human Zoos tells the shocking story of how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in the early decades of the twentieth century. To watch the full documentary, head to https://humanzoos.org/.

English Professor at Houston Baptist University, Louis Markos, returns for a second conversation with Socrates in the City’s Eric Metaxas. For this entertaining Studio conversation, the duo illustrate how ancient myths point to Christ, discussing C.S. Lewis, Pandora’s Box, Genesis, and much else along the way.

Louis Markos, English Professor at Houston Baptist University, joins host Eric Metaxas for a fascinating conversation on how the work of Plato —  Socrates’s student and Aristotle’s teacher — has shaped the Christian faith. In this lively discussion, the two look at Plato’s best-known texts and talk about how it affected figures like Augustine, Dante, and C. S. Lewis.