New College
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Oct 9, 2026
Matt BushGUEST
And as I'm reading Mere Christianity, and I'm also reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.
Matt BushGUEST
He was at New College.
Matt BushGUEST
I'd chatted with him a few times when I was there, and I'm wrestling with Lauren Krauss' A Universe from Nothing.
Matt BushGUEST
So I kinda have that going on here, and I'm reading Lewis, Mere Christianity.
Charles W. BuschHOST
Um, but, uh, and also you-
Matt BushGUEST
[laughs]
Charles W. BuschHOST
I, I, I can't remember if we've talked about this, Matt, but I was at Oxford too, obviously much later and much more juvenile than you, but I was at New College.
Charles W. BuschHOST
Which college were you at? So-
Daniel GoochHOST
Now, the walls were first built in stone by the Normans to replace earlier Saxon defenses, but only a few small structures survive.
Daniel GoochHOST
And you've got some in the grounds of New College and places like New Inn Hall Street, St Michael's Street, Ship Street, and Brewer Street.
Daniel GoochHOST
But I think you have to know what you're looking for if you're going to find them.
Daniel GoochHOST
Uh, the Northgate is a, is a notable part.
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
speaker_1HOST
Fisher had been the warden of New College Oxford.
speaker_1HOST
It was a bizarre, petty inside joke amongst the intelligence elite.
speaker_1HOST
They were dressing their spy in the undergarments of a man they intensely disliked.
Melina PalmerHOST
He has been researching the mechanics of motivation in the brain for decades, and his findings can help to explain why motivation may erode even when someone genuinely wants to be doing a good job.
Melina PalmerHOST
Massoud is professor of neurology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at New College Oxford.
Melina PalmerHOST
He is editor-in-chief of the journal Brain, and for more than 30 years, he's worked as a practicing clinical neurologist alongside his research, studying how the brain creates attention, memory, motivation, and decision-making in healthy people and those navigating brain disorders.
Melina PalmerHOST
His new book, Our Brains, Ourselves, won the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize and was named a Best Science Book of the Year by the Financial Times, The Times, and The Guardian.
Keith RoseHOST
Her background, she did attend Yale University.
Keith RoseHOST
And in 1985 to 1987, she was a Rhodes Scholar at New College at Oxford University.
Keith RoseHOST
She was an Oxford Rhodes Scholar, and she ultimately completed her doctor of philosophy.
Keith RoseHOST
So I guess she is a doctor, Naomi Wolf, a real doctor, unlike Dr. Joe Biden, where we have no idea what she's a doctor in.