Listen to Talks

Here are a few of the scholarly, semischolarly, and popular talks that I've given to various kinds of audiences. Some of these files are video, others just audio. If a talk doesn't open properly in one browser, try opening it in another.

I apologize for all the images of my ugly face.  When the video camera is trained on you the whole time, it's hard to find another image to illustrate the talk.

For the search engines:  These are talks by, and interviews with, J. Budziszewski on such topics as natural law, natural rights, philosophy, Christianity and Christian theology, politics, sexuality, college, and culture.

 

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Biola University professor Sean McDowell interviews me about my story and lots of other things.

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Conversation between me and Philip Davies of the U.K. podcast Amazing Academics about staying sane in a world gone mad.

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Kerbey Anderson of the podcast Point of View chats with me about Pandemic of Lunacy.

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Mark Bauerlein’s interview with me on the First Things podcast Conversations, May, 2026.

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First part of a two-part interview with me on Andrew McDiarmid's podcast "ID the Future," May, 2026.

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Second part of a two-part interview with me on Andrew McDiarmid's podcast "ID the Future," May, 2026.

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In the long form for which he has become famous, Matt Fradd interviews me on Pints with Aquinas about Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God,” April, 2026.

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Steve Greene interviews me on the "Reasonably Rational" podcast, April, 2026.

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Garrett Snedeker of Hadley Arkes’ James Wilson Institute chats with me about the spread of crazy ideas in our culture, March, 2026

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Jack Fowler interviews me on VDH's podcast about Pandemic of Lunacy, March, 2026.

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Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay of The Spectacle Podcast chat with me about "How Lunacy Spreads," February, 2026.

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Marco Casanova interviews me for the Desert Streaming Podcast, October, 2024

 

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Peter Kreeft and I have five conversations on his EWTN podcast in April and May 2023:  The differences between men and women, the natural law, human conscience and its sources, the virtue of tolerance, and the nature of human happiness.

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On Natural Law -- and Why It Is for Everyone, October, 2024

Ties to this article in NCBQ

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Interview with Mark Bauerlein, host of the First Thoughts podcast at First Things, March, 2022.

 

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Happiness, suffering, the Stoic revival, self-deception, why I used to be such an idiot, etc., April, 2022

 

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Three hours of conversation on happiness, cabbages, kings, and lots of other things with Matt Fradd of Pints with Aquinas, April, 2022

 

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Interview by Karina Macosko of Academic Influence, February, 2022

 

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Interview by Jed Macosko of Academic Influence, February, 2022

 

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Interview by Marianna Orlandi of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, March, 2022

 

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Sołek Academic and Cultural Center, Poznań, Poland, June, 2021.  To follow along without slides, view this diagram of the architecture of law.

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Conversation Series, Common Good Project, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, March, 2021

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Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, December, 2020

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University of Oregon chapter of the Thomistic Institute, November, 2019

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Annual Colloquium, “Aquinas and the Development of Law,” Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford, March, 2019.

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Conference on “Christianity and the Common Good,” Thomistic Institute, held at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October, 2018.

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Conference on “Patriarchy:  Fatherhood and the Restoration of Culture,” Fellowship of St. James, Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois, October, 2018

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Humanae Vitae 50th Anniversary Academic Symposium, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., April 2018

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Veritas Forum Lecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February, 2018

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Veritas Forum Lecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February, 2018 -- Audio Only

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Interview with Ratio Christi, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February, 2018 -- Audio Only

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Acton Institute lecture, Grand Rapids, Michigan, November, 2017

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Trailer for my Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law

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Discourse on Democracy series, Texas State University at San Marcos, October, 2015

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Wheatley Institution, Brigham Young University, 2015

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Highlights of an interview conducted by Marvin Olasky of World magazine, 2015

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Anscombe Society, Stanford University, 2014

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Anscombe Society, Stanford University, 2014

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Distinguished Speakers Program, Franciscan University, Steubenville, 2014

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Distinguished Speakers Program, Franciscan University of Steubenville, 2014

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Courage (Catholic ministry to persons with same-sex attractions), 2013

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Interviewed by Douglas Wilson, 2012

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Westmont College Chapel, 2011

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John Locke Foundation, 2011

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James Madison Program, Princeton, 2011

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Interviewed by Marcus Grodi, EWTN, 2005

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Veritas Forum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, October, 2003