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What We Can't Not Talk About

Join Austin Institute Executive Director and Director of Academic Programs Dr. Marianna Orlandi as she discusses topics that are relevant for the family and for society at large with prominent scholars and leaders in their fields. We promise that you’ll learn something and enjoy the conversations!

The Desecration of Man: A Conversation with Carl Trueman

53 mins; March 29, 2026

The Death of Prestige? A Conversation with the Authors of “Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation”

44 mins; March 06, 2026

Feminism and "The Dignity of Dependence". A Conversation with Leah Libresco Sargeant.

56 mins; February 11, 2026

You Must Read! The Benefits & Beatitudes of Reading with Professor Matthew Franck

0 secs; December 19, 2025

Infertility and Incarnation: Navigating the Trials of an Infertile Marriage w/ Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead

62 hours 22 mins; December 01, 2025

Immoral Conservatism Can't Work. Hume, Marriage, and Current Culture, with Dr. Aaron Zubia

56 mins; November 13, 2025

Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Dangers, and the Existential Question w/ Carlo Martinucci

0 secs; October 20, 2025

Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Dangers, and the Existential Question w/ Carlo Martinucci

36 mins; October 20, 2025

#112: Tips for Talking to Your Kids About Sexual Identity

65 hours 20 mins; September 26, 2025

The Revenge of Conscience & The Price of Vice

78 hours 22 mins; July 19, 2025

The Rationality of Marriage: Why It Matters More Than Ever

48 mins; June 17, 2025

Why Am I Not Getting the Love I Want?

50 mins; May 15, 2025

Literature, Philosophy, and the Mystery of the Human Person: Dostoevsky and Plato Revisited

49 mins; May 08, 2025

Why Education Matters: Lessons from C.S. Lewis and the New School of Civic Leadership

41 mins; April 24, 2025

Natural Law as Hermeneutical, A Lecture with Dr. R.J. Snell

47 mins; April 19, 2025

The Heroism of Forgiveness: What We Learn from Dolly in Anna Karenina

71 hours 40 mins; April 14, 2025

Education Can’t Be Neutral: A Discussion of Parental Rights in Education with Dr. Melissa Moschella

46 mins; March 28, 2025

Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire, with Dr. RJ Snell

41 mins; March 13, 2025

Truth Exists, Einstein Wasn’t a Genius, and Trump May Not Be the Devil with Dr. Alberto Martínez

49 mins; February 28, 2025

Different Kinds of Indoctrination or Truth-Seeking? On Education and Its Essence, with Dr. Rachel Alexander Cambre

49 mins; February 25, 2025

Different Kinds of Indoctrination or Truth-Seeking? On Education and Its Essence, with Dr. Rachel Alexander Cambre

0 secs; February 14, 2025

From Plato to Brideshead Revisited: How Beauty Shapes Us

50 mins; December 14, 2024

"The Education of the Ambitious Soul" - A Lecture by Dr. Shilo Brooks (11/8/2024)

82 hours 50 mins; November 28, 2024

On Natural Law and Why it is for Everyone, a conversation with Professor J. Budziszewski

50 mins; November 28, 2024

#97 Lost in the Chaos: Immanence, Despair, Hope with Dr. R. J. Snell

54 mins; May 13, 2024

The Toxic War on Masculinity with Professor Nancy Pearcey

46 mins; April 13, 2024

S4 E9 Religious Freedom with Professor Andrea Pin

43 mins; March 08, 2024

S4 E8 Mental and Physical Chastity in the 21st century with Jason Evert

30 mins; February 23, 2024

S4 E7 Battling Censorship with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

62 hours 33 mins; January 15, 2024

What Guareschi Can Teach us About our Ideologized World with Author Piers Dudgeon

49 mins; December 16, 2023

S4 E5: How Cities and Buildings Affect our Flourishing with Philip Bess

60 hours 29 mins; November 06, 2023

S4 E4: What if Children Came First with Katy Faust

39 mins; October 13, 2023

S4 E3: Hope and Healing: Addressing Student Mental Health Challenges, with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

85 hours 42 mins; October 02, 2023

2. S4 E2: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is becoming more accepted across North America dangerously fast. with Professor Brian Bird

52 mins; September 01, 2023

S4 E1 : How the Modern Redefinition of Womanhood is Destructive to True Feminine Liberation with Dr. Abigail Favale

49 mins; August 03, 2023

S3 E14 : Why Talking About Fidelity Now Matters More Than Ever with Dr. William Bellet

54 mins; June 06, 2023

S3 E13 : Can We Reverse Collapsing Populations? with Professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

49 mins; May 26, 2023

S3 E12 : The Fertility Gap: Why Women around the World are Having Fewer Children than They Desire

44 mins; May 11, 2023

S3 E11 : Beating Hearts, A Concert (and Talk) with Marie Bellet

100 hours 16 mins; April 26, 2023

S3 E10 : Are you a Monkey? A Conversation with Professor Clifford Fry

45 mins; March 31, 2023

S3 E9 : Marriage, Divorce, and Human Flourishing, a conversation with Dr. Amy Hamilton

69 hours 20 mins; March 17, 2023

S3 E8 : A Conversation on the Future of Abortion Laws and Policies with Heather Gebelin Hacker, JD

48 mins; February 22, 2023

S3 E7 : What Should We Think of Oscar Wilde? with Professor Paul Fortunato

37 mins; February 10, 2023

S3 E6 : Our Loneliness? A Weapon in the Hands of Tyrants: A Conversation with Stella Morabito

50 mins; January 27, 2023

S3 E5 Hormone-free Diets and the Pill: A Conversation on Contraception and Its Contradictions with Grace Stark

52 mins; January 06, 2023

S3 E4: Why male and female? A conversation on sexuality with Christopher West

65 hours 55 mins; December 09, 2022

S3 E3 : The” New Totalitarianism”: A Conversation on Augusto Del Noce’s Philosophy with Professor Carlo Lancellotti

46 mins; November 27, 2022

S3 E2 : The Family and The Regime: Compatible or at Odds? A conversation with economist Dr. Clara E. Piano

39 mins; November 11, 2022

The Lost (but Needed) “Art of Dying”: A conversation with Lydia S. Dugdale, MD

49 mins; October 20, 2022

The Meaning of Education in Today's World

41 mins; July 15, 2022

Strange New World

37 mins; July 01, 2022

The Unsettled and Unsettling Science of Gender Identity

53 mins; June 20, 2022

The State of Sex Ed

42 mins; June 10, 2022

The Jeweler’s Shop and the Anthropological Need for Marriage

18 mins; May 27, 2022

Doing Business in a Post-Apocalyptic World

30 mins; May 13, 2022

Uncertain Times

20 mins; April 29, 2022

Attitudes in the U.S. toward Transgenderism

27 mins; April 22, 2022

Conservatism in the EU and the U.S.

37 mins; April 18, 2022

Does Liberalism Have Anything to Teach Us about Happiness?

43 mins; April 08, 2022

Susan Yoshihara on Women, War, and Mothers

38 mins; April 01, 2022

War Highlights Sex Differences and Family Ties

26 mins; March 18, 2022

How and How Not to be Happy

47 mins; March 01, 2022

From D.C. to Detroit: A Story of the Feminist Dream

40 mins; February 18, 2022

It’s Not Selfish to Pursue One’s Own Happiness (Rightly Understood): Reconciling Platonic Eros with Christian Agape

33 mins; February 10, 2022

"The Unbroken [Academic] Thread" Part 4: Sohrab Ahmari and Professor Mark Regnerus

33 mins; February 03, 2022

"The Unbroken [Academic] Thread" Part 3: Sohrab Ahmari and Professor Robert Koons

29 mins; January 27, 2022

The Porn Gap

37 mins; January 20, 2022

"The Unbroken [Academic] Thread" Part 2: Sohrab Ahmari and Professor J. Budziszewski

32 mins; January 14, 2022

The Benefits of Reading to Your Child

19 mins; December 31, 2021

"The Unbroken [Academic] Thread" Part 1: Sohrab Ahmari and Fr. Jonathan Raia

88 hours 10 mins; December 17, 2021

Time to Think and Thoughts About Time

59 mins; December 10, 2021

Called to Freedom: Healing One Day at a Time

102 hours 4 mins; December 03, 2021

Conservatism in the Church

31 mins; November 23, 2021

Mismatches in the Marriage Market with Professor Joseph Price

24 mins; November 12, 2021

Table Talk: The Miracle of the Tuscan Casentino: “...things visible and invisible...” with Professor Emeritus Norman Farmer

58 mins; November 05, 2021

The Dramatic and Underrepresented Effects of Religion on Prisoners (and on Us)

34 mins; October 29, 2021

Lecture: Soulmates and Other Myths about the Family in America

73 hours 34 mins; October 22, 2021

American Women Quietly Defying the Nation's Birth Dearth, with Professor Catherine Pakaluk

39 mins; October 15, 2021

Table Talk: What is Time? Reflections from a Catholic Physicist

57 mins; October 08, 2021

What is CanaVox and Who Needs It?, with Dr. Ana Samuel

27 mins; October 01, 2021

Memory and Mortality, with Dr. Rachel Alexander

36 mins; September 17, 2021

Lecture: Ties That Bind, Preserving Parent/Child Relationships

63 hours 12 mins; September 09, 2021

Protecting Your Children and Yourself From Pornography: Here Is How, with Sean Clifford

38 mins; August 19, 2021

What Does a Pro-Life America Look Like?, With Valerie Huber

29 mins; August 10, 2021

"Jordan Peterson, God and Christianity," with Professor Christopher Kaczor

44 mins; July 29, 2021

Recovering Virtue: Humility in the Age of Social Media, with Dr. Melissa Moschella

35 mins; July 14, 2021

No, We Can't Not Talk About Pornography, with Dr. Jimmy Myers

47 mins; July 02, 2021

Religion and Science: Friends or Foes? with Professor Robert Koons

32 mins; June 23, 2021

Did Covid Affect the Family? with Professor Mark Regnerus

25 mins; June 10, 2021

The Family or the State: To Whom Do Children Belong? with Melissa Moschella

38 mins; June 04, 2021

Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean with Author and Professor Ligia Castaldi

23 mins; May 25, 2021

What We Think of Abortion: Irreconcilable Differences? with Professor Christopher Kaczor

76 hours 31 mins; May 19, 2021

Let's Talk About Beauty! with Michael Raia

30 mins; May 12, 2021

Latinos and the Future of Conservatism: A Conversation with Alfonso Aguilar

25 mins; May 05, 2021

The Problem of Evil with Professor Christopher Kaczor

29 mins; April 29, 2021

The Great Divides in Our Country with Dr. Kevin Stuart

32 mins; April 22, 2021

Rival Theories of Sexual Difference with Professor Timothy Fortin

108 hours 9 mins; April 13, 2021

Policy Update: Religious Liberty and Women's Sports

26 mins; April 07, 2021

Prudence, Law, and Algorithms

30 mins; March 31, 2021

The Pros of Becoming - and Being - a Father

26 mins; March 24, 2021

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