The Gutenberg Podcast

The Gutenberg Podcast is a series of conversations intended to bring the complex world of ideas to a broader audience. The podcast format is a perfect fit for Gutenberg. We spend a lot of our time reading great works of literature and then raising interesting questions for discussion.

Gil Greco

Gil Greco

Producer & Host

Gutenberg alumnus Gil Greco and the Gutenberg tutors explore the Great Books from a Christian perspective, recognizing their complexity in the light of competing views.

The Gutenberg Podcast is available on the streaming services listed below.

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Topics

2025

  • Aristotle’s Politics
  • Plato’s “Analogy of the Cave”
  • Alexander the Great and Hellenization
  • Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue
  • Sartre’s “Existentialism Is a Humanism”

2024

  • Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
  • Genesis 1-4
  • Aristotle on Justice
  • Prehistory and the Bronze Age
  • Christian Existentialism
  • C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man
  • Ellul’s Propaganda
  • Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful
  • Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • Lenin’s The State and Revolution
  • How Are Things True?
  • WWI Disenchants the West
  • The Long 19th Century
  • An Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard, Auguste Comte, and the Positivist Future
  • The French Revolution & Napoleonic Era
  • Rousseau’s Social Contract
  • Road to the Revolutions

2023

  • Kant’s Epistemological Contribution
  • Reading Reid, Reading Reality
  • Hume and the Limits of Understanding
  • Locke and Berkeley
  • Descartes Sets the Stage
  • Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum
  • The Science Curriculum
  • Boccaccio’s Decameron
  • Genghis Khan
  • Anselm and Proving God’s Existence
  • A Millennium of Medieval Philosophy
  • From Republic to Empire
  • Polybius and the Cycles of Simple Government
  • The Hellenistic Philosophies
  • Lucretius and the Big Swerve
  • Aristotle, Friendship, and the Nicomachean Ethics
  • Plato and Socrates
  • Greek Theater

2022

  • Homer: The Story of the Cyclops
  • Ancient Polytheism & Biblical Monotheism
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Rhetoric and Dialectic
  • Introducing the Gutenberg Podcast