What is political theory and how does its study fit into liberal education? Does a change in music prefigure a change in political regimes? These and other questions are taken up in this conversation with Prof. Chris Wolfe. In hindsight, who would have thought that both Plato and “The Plastic People of the Universe would come up in the same podcast? Links of Potential Interest: Plato’s Republic Aristotle’s Politics Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture Christopher James Wolfe, “Reilly and the Republic in 2020: Why Isn’t It 'Cool' Anymore?,” Catholic Social Science Review: Volume 26. Charles De Koninck, "On the Primacy of the Common Good: Against the Personalists and The Principle of the New Order,"  The Aquinas Review: Vol. 4 (1997). Osborne, "MacIntyre, Thomism and the Contemporary Common Good." Analyse & Kritik 30/2008 (c Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart) p. 75–90. The Plastic People of the Universe