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Shilo Brooks
Shilo Brooks is President and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science at SMU, and host of the podcast Old School. Winner of Princeton University’s Phi Beta Kappa teaching award, he has also taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Colorado, and Bowdoin College.
How Thomas Sowell Transformed Coleman Hughes
And how Sowell’s best book explains what drives our political divides.
November 5, 2025
Shilo Brooks
58M

Nick Cave on ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’
How a children's book helped the rock and roll legend grieve his son.
October 30, 2025
Shilo Brooks
55M

Why We Still Need Plato
Dr. Cornel West says Plato’s ‘Republic’ is the antidote to nihilism.
October 23, 2025
Shilo Brooks
52M

What Steven Pinker Taught this Pro Bodybuilder about Genetics
Dr. Mike Israetel tackles the myth of limitless potential.
October 16, 2025
Shilo Brooks
1HR 4M

Reading Books Made a Man Out of Me
And why I’m launching ‘Old School,’ a new podcast about great books and how they can make us better men.
October 9, 2025
Shilo Brooks

MeatEater’s Steven Rinella on Lessons from the Wilderness
The outdoorsman and television host breaks down Jim Harrison’s ‘Wolf.’
October 9, 2025
Shilo Brooks
1HR 5M

‘The Old Man and the Sea’ with Admiral James Stavridis
A Navy legend on what he learned about resilience from Hemingway.
October 9, 2025
Shilo Brooks
56M
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