What Makes Ralston So Rare? A Visiting Scholar Reflects on a Living Community of Inquiry

Does a Creator Solve Anything? On Parsimony and the Origins of the Universe

Contemplation, Culture, and the Costs of Hyperconsciousness

Beyond Evolution’s Game: Choosing the Goals Worthy of Human Beings

Enlarging the Will: On Freedom and the Life Worth Living

What Remains of Us: Lineage, Memory, and the Human Continuum

Evolution, Divinity, and the Logic of Belief

Language and Myth: How Culture Extends Human Evolution

Niche Switching: The Defining Adaptation of Humanity

The Limits of Measurement: Rethinking What Science Should Ask

When Wisdom Fails: Consciousness as Humanity’s Adaptive Mode

The First Campfire: How Conversation Ignited Human Innovation

Teaser: The Sophia Lectures With Bret Weinstein - Lecture 4: Culture and Genes

The Limits of Ancestral Wisdom: Consciousness and the Human Niche

Reading is an art and that art has largely been lost.

Reining in Change: Why Humanity Must Slow Down to Survive

Sustainability, Reciprocity, and the Future of Civilization

The Conundrum of Modernity: Do Our Myths Still Guide Us?

The Mystery of Friendship: What Monkeys Reveal About Love Beyond Measure

The Origins of Love: What Mammals Teach Us About Care and Connection

Why Children Need the Open Air: Vision, Depth, and the Gift of Seeing

Canary Songs and Human Imitation: The Art of Staying Original

The Birth of Understanding: Theory of Mind in Baboons and Children

Reclaiming Science: Courage, Creativity, and Curiosity Against Mechanistic Ideology

The Convergent Mind: What Birds Reveal About the Architecture of Thought

Teaser: The Sophia Lectures With Heather Heying - Lecture 3: The Usual Suspects

The Courage to Dissent: Finding Truth Beyond the Dominant Narrative

Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Culture: Rethinking Dawkins’ “Selfish Gene”

Continuity and Creation: Are Humans Truly Different?

The Bargain of Science: Truth, Freedom, and the Courage to Ask

Science and the Power of Metaphor: How We Understand the Unknown

Truth and Beauty: The Common Aim of Science and Art

Is the Soul Just a Metaphor? Evolution, Meaning, and the Mystery of Personhood

How the University Lost Its Soul: Science, Money, and the Collapse of Curiosity

The Hidden Metaphors of Science: How Language Shapes What We Know

Teaser: The Sophia Lectures With Bret Weinstein - Lecture 2: Biological Nature to What End?

The Danger of One Kind of Evidence: Why Science Needs Consilience

There Is No Best: Change, Evolution, and the Illusion of Perfection

From Common Origins to Differentiation: What Embryos Teach Us About Life

@Heather Heying The Sophia Lectures 2025: Foundations

Ralston College - Rediscover the Humanities

The Evolution of Consciousness—and What Is Failing Us Now

The Difference Between Hypothesis and Theory—and Why It Matters

When Science Meets the Humanities: The Toolkit for Truth

The Crisis in Scientific Education: Why PhDs Rarely Do Real Science

The 2025 Sophia Lectures: Tractable Miracles with Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Ralston Alumnus Hagen Moore on the Transformative Effect of the College’s Academic Standards

Befriending the Ancients: How Learning Greek at Ralston College Transforms the Humanities Journey