The Makers Rage Podcast
A podcast exploring the history of ideas and creativity with topics chosen from the Arts, Sciences, and "everything in between." Upcoming episodes will include the following titles: What Is Enlightenment, Western Canons, Accidental Genius and a series on Muses. Please feel free to suggest topics on IG, Twitter, or Facebook.
The Makers Rage Podcast
Latest Episodes
Come Live with Me: The Afterlife of a Love Poem
Come Live with Me: The Afterlife of a Love PoemWhat happens when a love poem receives an answer—and poets keep answering it for more than four centuries?Around 1590, Christopher Marlowe issued one of poetry’s most enduring ...
The Hero’s Journey: Why We Keep Telling the Same Story
What do an ancient Sumerian goddess, a Hobbit, a Jedi and a Dublin advertising salesman have in common?In this episode of The Makers Rage, we follow Joseph Campbell’s 17-stage Hero’s Journey through the descent of Inanna, <...
The Muses: Clio or History
In this episode of The Maker's Rage Podcast, we follow Clio, the Muse of History, on an extraordinary journey spanning over 2,500 years of historical thought. Beginning with her classical iconography in the works of Cesare Ripa ...
The Engineered Man: Styles of Victorian Masculinity
In this episode, I explore how Victorian masculinity was not a fixed ideal, but a fragmented, competing set of identities forged in a time of social upheaval. From Sherlock Holmes to Oscar Wilde to Eugen Sandow, I trace how men attempted ...