Bring Your Big Questions
Explore brilliant, full-length interviews and talks featuring a stunning array of thought leaders.
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Explore brilliant, full-length interviews and talks featuring a stunning array of thought leaders.
More than twenty-five years ago, Socrates in the City began as a forum to encourage busy New York City professionals to think about the bigger questions in life. This fall, we’re going back to our roots with a brand new in-person event series: Socrates in the City Book Club.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I’m thrilled to introduce you to a remarkable release from Socrates in the City Books: “Conversations on the Examined Life, Vol. 1.” This remarkable collection features eight profound discussions with extraordinary individuals like Alice Von Hildebrand, Walter Hooper, John Lennox, and Dick Cavett, among others.
Meet our host — #1 New York Times bestselling author, national radio host, and self-described “World’s Foremost Authority.”
Our massive audio archive goes way back — lose yourself in these full-length audio files from many years of events.
If you think the years have dulled the fire, wit, and passion of our first nonagenarian guest, prepare to be happily flabbergasted!
Browse our shop for autographed copies of Eric Metaxas’s newest blockbuster and many other splendid offerings.
Veteran interviewer Hewitt becomes the interviewee in this rambunctious conversation about The Happiest Life.
If you are looking for truly great things that will boggle your mind, start here.
Has Science buried God? Eric Metaxas tracks down Oxford’s John Lennox for answers, and the professor delivers!
Host Eric Metaxas welcomes lawyer, activist, and Independent Presidential candidate Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the Socrates in the...
The esteemed editor of The New Criterion — a monthly review of the arts and intellectual life – and president of Encounter Books,...
Eric Metaxas interviews entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel on his bestselling book ZERO TO ONE. Using Apollo 11 and Woodstock...
Public intellectual and author Heather Mac Donald and host Eric Metaxas discuss ideologies that are infecting Western institutions. The two...
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Jonathan Pageau is a French Canadian icon carver, public speaker and cultural commentator exploring the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world, how these patterns emerge and come together, manifesting in religion, art and in popular culture. He’s also the editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal and host of the Symbolic World blog and podcast. He seeks to explore one of the most profound questions of our time: What is the meaning of meaning?
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What Happens When One of America’s Most Beloved Biographers Writes His Own Biography? For Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life—a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit.
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