Old School with Shilo Brooks
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Old School with Shilo Brooks
Hosted by The Free Press · arts · EN
About this Podcast:
Fewer of us than ever are reading books for pleasure. Shilo Brooks is on a mission to change that. Old School is a new podcast from The Free Press about great books and how reading them can make us stronger, better men. The show features intimate conversations with fascinating men—from fitness gurus to philosophers—about the books that shaped their lives. New episodes out every Thursday. Read with us: https://bookshop.org/lists/old-school-with-shilo-brooks
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What is Old School with Shilo Brooks about?
Fewer of us than ever are reading books for pleasure. Shilo Brooks is on a mission to change that. Old School is a new podcast from The Free Press about great books and how reading them can make us stronger, better men.
Who hosts Old School with Shilo Brooks?
Old School with Shilo Brooks is hosted by The Free Press. The show has published 35 episodes to date.
What has Old School with Shilo Brooks covered recently?
Recent episodes include "A Note From Shilo" (25 June 2026, 3 minutes), "What ‘The Future Is Female’ Has Meant for Men" (18 June 2026, 58 minutes), and "Walter Isaacson on the Sentence That Created America" (11 June 2026, 53 minutes).
How often does Old School with Shilo Brooks publish?
Old School with Shilo Brooks publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 35 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Old School with Shilo Brooks?
Booking probability for Old School with Shilo Brooks is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Old School with Shilo Brooks requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Old School with Shilo Brooks's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Free Press hosts Old School with Shilo Brooks, an arts podcast with 35 episodes published.
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Old School with Shilo Brooks
What ‘The Future Is Female’ Has Meant for Men
Jun 18, 202658 minFor decades, the fight for gender equality has squarely focused on lifting women up—in the workplace, politics, and beyond. But according to Richard Reeves, president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, it’s the...
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Walter Isaacson on the Sentence That Created America
Jun 11, 202653 minIf America has a mission statement, it is this: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are...
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The WWII Novel That Explains America
Jun 4, 202655 minIn this special episode, Shilo Brooks is joined by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jon Meacham at the Jack Miller Center’s annual summit on civic education. They took the stage at the National Constitution Center in...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
Agatha Christie and the Kidnapping That Inspired Her Greatest Mystery
May 28, 202655 minIn this episode, Shilo sits down with veteran journalist Joe Nocera for a deep dive into the world’s best-selling novelist, Agatha Christie. Nocera’s new investigative podcast is all about the Charles Lindbergh, Jr...
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Inside the Supreme Court with Amy Coney Barrett
May 21, 202651 minIn this special episode, taped live at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Shilo sits down with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for a wide-ranging interview on the law. They discuss Barrett’s lifelong love...
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A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies
May 19, 202643 minHi Old School listeners! Veteran reporter Joe Nocera has launched a six part series about the Lindbergh kidnapping. Enjoy episode one here and then head on over to The Lindbergh Conspiracies feed for the rest of the...
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Roald Dahl: Genius and Bigot
May 7, 202649 minFor tickets to our live recording with Jon Meacham in Philadelphia, click here and register. Use code TFP for a 20 percent discount. Roald Dahl gave the world Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and Charlie and the...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
How Sports Became Our Civic Religion
Apr 30, 202652 minFor tickets to our live recording with Jon Meacham in Philadelphia, click here and register. Use code TFP for a 20 percent discount. In this episode, Shilo sits down with sportswriter Wright Thompson to explore what the...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
The Ancient Jewish Wisdom Behind a $5 Billion Company
Apr 16, 202653 minFor tickets to our live recording with Jon Meacham in Philadelphia, CLICK HERE and register. Use code TFP for a 20 percent discount. As he built Kind Snacks into a $5 billion company, ‘Shark Tank’s Daniel Lubetzky...
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Neal Stephenson on AI, Rome, and How Civilizations Decline
Apr 9, 202649 minNeal Stephenson, the prophetic author of cyberpunk classics like Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, has shaped how we imagine the future, from the metaverse to crypto to AI. His science fiction has a way of becoming...
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The Two Types of People Who Never Find Happiness
Mar 26, 202653 minFor tickets to our live recording with Jon Meacham in Philadelphia, CLICK HERE and register. Use code TFP for a 20 percent discount. Life is short. How do we live it well? Harvard professor Arthur Brooks has spent years...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
Hunting Humans for Sport
Mar 19, 202655 minFor tickets to our live recording with Jon Meacham in Philadelphia, CLICK HERE and register. Use code TFP for a 20 percent discount. Richard Connell’s 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game” tells of a...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
Joan Didion Knew What Hollywood Would Become
Mar 12, 202655 minThe perfect book to read around the Oscars this weekend? Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays. In this episode, Shilo sits down with Peter Savodnik to discuss Didion’s 1970 novel—a book that seemed to anticipate everything...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
The NYC Public Defender Who Sends Books to Prisoners
Mar 5, 202656 minIn this episode, Shilo Brooks sits down with New York City public defender Ben Schatz to discuss the novel True Grit–and the nature of justice in America. Ben founded the nonprofit Books Beyond Bars, which sends...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
‘The Brothers Karamazov’ Helped Inspire the Catholic App Hallow
Feb 26, 202655 minAlex Jones was using apps like Headspace and Calm to quiet his mind, but he had fallen away from his Catholic faith. Then he read The Brothers Karamazov, and everything changed. Alex, who went on to recommit himself to...
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‘Lolita,’ Jeffrey Epstein, and the Real Meaning of a Challenging Classic
Feb 19, 202649 minOne particular novel is all over the Epstein files: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. Reportedly, this was the one and only book Jeffrey Epstein kept at his bedside table. He owned a first edition. It pops up in emails and in...
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The Secret Lives of Ordinary People
Feb 12, 202654 minDylan Thomas is one of the 20th century’s legendary poets. In this episode, English journalist David Aaronovitch joins Shilo to discuss Thomas’ 1954 play Under Milk Wood, a portrait of a small Welsh seaside town...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
David Mamet vs. the Snobs
Feb 5, 20261h 3mPulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Mamet spent his childhood cutting class and reading at the local library. His first pick was Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street, which he pulled off the shelves at just 11 years old...
Old School with Shilo Brooks
Colin Quinn on Incels, Woke Activists, and Peaking at 14
Jan 29, 202653 minIn this episode, legendary comic Colin Quinn dives into a cult classic that still makes him cry with laughter: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. The novel follows the misadventures of an overweight...
Recent guests
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Eli Lake
staff writer, Bloomberg Opinion
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Wright Thompson
Author of The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, ESPN
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Alex Jones
curatorial research assistant in modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, Barwon Community Legal Service
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Shilo Brooks
Faculty Director and Teaching Associate Professor, James Madison Program at Princeton University
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