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The Benson Center podcast explores topics in Western philosophy, politics, literature, and history with adventurous disregard for academic fashions and intellectual trends. Host Shilo Brooks invites listeners to pull up a chair in an intellectual laboratory where great questions and great books are explored in the spirit of truth-seeking, and...

May 23, 2022

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April 18, 2022. Shilo Brooks was among twenty-three faculty and staff members recognized this year through the Marinus Smith Awards for the positive impacts they have made on their students.

The national Workshop in Heterodox Moral and Political Philosophy will be held for the first time at the University of Colorado Boulder under the auspices of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization this spring. This is the third iteration of the workshop, which was founded and organized...

Jan. 27, 2022: Former Benson Center Visiting Scholar William B. Allen on growing up in segregated Florida and why the Founders' vision transcended slavery.

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