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Grammar to gather, logic to test, rhetoric to present. Learning Out Loud runs on the classical Trivium, applied live to the documents that shaped American law and history. Every episode is a working research session: the primary sources go on the table, the citations go in the notes, and everything we find goes into the Thought Crime Dojo for you to dig into yourself. Start with The Foundations, 20+ hours free, and learn to research out loud with us.
Seven Subjects of Study
Search the Podcast by the Seven Subjects
Every episode of Learning Out Loud belongs to one of seven subjects of study: Law & Equity, Bible & Theology, American History, Education & University, Empire & Religion, Health & Psychology, and Alchemy & Metaphysics. Each subject holds one or more series, and each series follows a single line of research from its primary sources forward, one episode at a time. The subjects are separate shelves, not separate worlds. A maxim of equity turns up in the Book of Ruth, a Supreme Court justice opens a study of Job, and the method of the Trivium runs under all of it. Series run side by side and answer one another, so you can follow one thread from start to finish or move across the subjects and watch the connections form. Every episode has its own page in the Thought Crime Dojo, with an outline, its cited sources and links to listen or watch, so the research stays open for you to check and build on.
Law & Equity
The subject where the show began. The Foundations (EP 1–10) reads Murray F. Tuley's 1903 address, Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence and Story's Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence into the record. It takes the maxims of equity one at a time and tests each against U.S. Supreme Court opinions. The Equity of Redemption series follows on, moving from Pomeroy's general theory of equity into the law of mortgages: what a mortgage actually is, when a deed absolute is "but a mortgage," and why the right to redeem cannot be bargained away. All 20+ hours of The Foundations are free.
Bible & Theology
Scripture read with a lawyer's eye. Law in the Bible opens with the life of Justice Joseph Story and then reads the Book of Job as a court proceeding. Biblical Redemption works through the redemption stories of Scripture in canonical order, from the Fall and the Passover to Ruth's kinsman redeemer, the redemption of Mephibosheth and the Suffering Servant of Isaiah. Along the way it traces the legal language of covenant, substitution, notice and release, using the 1560 Geneva Bible and the King James side by side.
American History
The founding stories, told from the documents. Fruits of Yale goes back before the college existed, to John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, the New Haven Colony and the families who planted it. Orphan Trains begins with the press, through James Gordon Bennett Sr. and the rise of the New York Herald. Commentaries on Commentaries reads Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States section by section, starting with how title to the colonies' lands was first claimed.
Education & University
The tools behind the work. The Trivium series teaches the classical method of learning, the place "where three roads meet." Grammar gathers the facts, logic tests them, and rhetoric presents them. Drawing on Sister Miriam Joseph, Aristotle, Dorothy Sayers, and Scalia and Garner's Reading Law, it shows how the same method that trained medieval scholars still governs how courts read a statute. If you want to sharpen your own research, start here.
Empire & Religion
Church, crown and the long road of power. The Holy Roman Germanic Empire series opens in 568 AD with the Lombard invasion of Italy. It follows the kings, the dukes and the law codes alongside a papacy with no army of its own, down to the Donations of Sutri and Pepin that gave the Church its first lands. It is the history behind the institutions that later shaped Western law.
Health & Psychology
How minds are shaped, and by whom. Psychological Warfare starts with the 1973 Norrmalmstorg bank siege in Stockholm, the event that gave Stockholm syndrome its name. It follows the six days of the siege, the psychiatrist behind the diagnosis, and how the term became doctrine before academics challenged it. The hosts examine the record and ask what the official story leaves out.
Alchemy & Metaphysics
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