An old friend of mine, Dr. Jason Fugikawa, is doing more than his fair share to foster classical learning for those who have just commenced the pursuit of wisdom or have been struggling down that path for a long time. Among the projects he has undertaken is a growing archive of podcast discussions that looks one day to cover the whole canon of the great books of the Western World.

Each discussion, less than an hour, promotes a specific work of antiquity with a guest- a champion of the work – and in his questions Jason knows how to squeeze fruit out of each of his guests. Indeed his site is called better pears – a marvelously clever reference (the usual way with Dr. Fugikawa) to a remark of St Augustine in his Confessions.

I encourage you to visit his site and listen to his podcast series – you may find it over there at betterpears.com!

In the mean time here is the latest episode!