Podcasts

The first podcast of 2026 to come out was my conversation with Xavier Bonilla of Converging Dialogues. We had a spirited conversation about Diogenes’ thoughts on the body and pleasure, and much more. Give it a listen here!

For my last podcast of 2025 I talked to fellow Classicist Johanna Hanink for her awesome podcast Lesche. We start out with the difference between my Dutch and English books on Diogenes, and the process of translation. Available here.

Scott Rank from History Unplugged and I had a great conversation about what we can and cannot know about Diogenes, and why he still matters. Start listening here.

Ryan Holiday from The Daily Stoic invited me to his bookstore and podcast studio in Balstrop (near Austin, Texas) to talk about Diogenes, a great experience! Two episodes and a preview (prelisten?) of the audiobook are out now, available on any podcast provider, but links to one option are here, here, and here.

I really enjoyed talking to Brandon Tumblin for his The Strong Stoic Podcast, you can listen to the episode, titled “Diogenes the Dog: Stress-Testing Stoicism” here.

My first ever English language podcast, Western Civ, talking about Diogenes in November 2025. Thank you for the great conversation, Adam Walsh! November 11, 2025.

Myself, Kim Beerden, and Wouter Hofland discuss the antiquities collected by an eccentric Dutch baron in the early nineteenth century, with Timo Epping for the podcast Oudheid. (In Dutch.)

A conversation about Diogenes in the podcast Oudheid with Timo Epping, and a bonus episode on Diogenes and Jesus. October 11, 2023. (Both in Dutch.)

An interview on Dutch national radio with Jort Kelder about Diogenes and other freethinkers. November 26, 2022. The conversation continued in two episodes of the Jortcast, available here and here. (In Dutch.)

An interview on Dutch national radio about Leven met de goden for the show Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd. April 18, 2018. (In Dutch.)