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Full recordings of the lectures given at Meriwether dinners in Nashville and around the campfire on our Tennessee retreats: the American founding, political philosophy, the classics, art and architecture, and what it means to be a man.
A Meriwether Academy lecture in the grand salon of the Belmont Mansion, Nashville.
Latest · Lecture XX · 56 min
AI as Antichrist: Joe Allen on Revelation, Transhumanism, and the Beast System
Joe Allen, author of Dark Aeon, reads the Book of Revelation for the age of superintelligence. Antichrist, he argues, means not only against Christ but in place of Christ, and AI is being offered as exactly that: a substitute savior promising wisdom, healing, abundance, and immortality.
Lecture notes, chapters, and transcriptThe Archive
Every Lecture
AI as Antichrist: Joe Allen on Revelation, Transhumanism, and the Beast System
Joe Allen
Myth, Faith and Technology
The Case for Classical Architecture: Justin Shubow on Public Building
Justin Shubow
Art, Architecture and Beauty
Aristotle and Aquinas on Politics: Dr. Benjamin Smith on a Republic of Virtue
Dr. Benjamin Smith
Political Philosophy
Ataraxia and the Ancient Art of Calm: Dr. Mark Anderson on Tranquility of Mind
Dr. Mark Anderson
Philosophy and the Good Life
Builders, Beauty, and the Future of the West: Ryan Turbeville on Building
Ryan Turbeville
Manhood and Character
Lysander: Alex Petkas on Plutarch's Cunning Spartan General
Alex Petkas
Heroes and History
Reviving the Classical Mind: Dr. H.D. Miller on Why the Liberal Arts Matter
Dr. H.D. Miller
Philosophy and the Good Life
The Second Founding of America: Grant, Longstreet, Lincoln and the Founders
Brian Mounce
The American Founding
The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Industry, Reputation, and the Autobiography
Warren Steury
Heroes and History
Joe Allen on American Religious Liberty, Cults and the History of Transhumanism
Joe Allen
Myth, Faith and Technology
Radicals of the American Revolution: Adams, Madison and the Bill of Rights
Brian Mounce
The American Founding
The Closing of the American Mind: Michael Millerman on Education and the Soul
Dr. Michael Millerman
Political Philosophy
The Sons of Liberty and the American Masculine Ethos: Ryan Turbeville
Ryan Turbeville
The American Founding
The Life of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer, Jefferson's Secretary, Unsung Hero
Warren Steury
Heroes and History
What Are Natural Rights? Michael Millerman on Strauss and the Founding
Dr. Michael Millerman
Political Philosophy
What Is Political Philosophy? Dr. Michael Millerman on Leo Strauss
Dr. Michael Millerman
Political Philosophy
The Ideas Behind the American Founding: Brian Mounce from Hobbes to Madison
Brian Mounce
The American Founding
The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita: Joe Allen on Myth and Duty
Joe Allen
Myth, Faith and Technology
American Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau and the Death of Manhood
Warren Steury
Manhood and Character
Aligned to the Divine Design: Ernest Chapman on the Patterns of Nature
Ernest Chapman
Philosophy and the Good LifeAt the Lectern
Our Speakers
Scholars, writers, and Meriwether Fellows. Several have also joined Warren Steury on the Meriwether Academy Podcast.
About the Lectures
One speaker, one room of men, and a real argument, followed by questions and conversation over dinner.
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Dinner lectures with scholars and artists, a weekly men’s book club reading Plutarch, and wilderness expeditions across Tennessee.