The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Stephen Blackwood joins the podcast to discuss the founding and liberal-arts mission of recently established Ralston College where he is president. They touch on the challenges facing—and hunger for—classical education in America today.
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