Lauren Spohn is a writer, filmmaker, and assistant professor of intellectual history at the University of Texas, Austin. She completed a doctorate in Philosophical Theology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (2025), a Masters in Intellectual History also at Oxford (2021), and an A.B. in Literature at Harvard (2020).
Dinner with Dinosaurs
The New Atlantis
The right’s new love of technological progress isn’t a good enough answer to the left’s progressive ideology. What are they both missing?
The Myths of Meritocracy
The American Oxonian
When the ladder wobbles.
The Shadows Flee
The Lamp
On being Newman’s friend.
Footgolf: The American Sport
The Harvard Crimson
See! Americans can play sports with our feet!
A World Lit up in Wonder
The Tablet
An Oxford conversion story.
On Dentistry
Genealogies of Modernity
Tongues can lie about the nature of things. Can teeth?
Midnight in Lviv
Lviv Now
The prewar story of Ukraine’s American exiles.
Welcome to the Reading Party
Publication of the Canterbury Institute
The academic versus the intellectual life at Oxford—told through the eyes of America’s newest cohort of postgrad expats, the Barry Scholars.
Out of Shadows
The Catholic Herald
A night walk with saints.
The Outset Island Effect
With a Terrible Fate
The phenomenology of video game music. And a love letter to The Legend of Zelda.
The Cheeky Fix
Jericho WaWa
When something that’s not supposed to do something does it better than the thing that’s supposed to do it does it.
St J.H. Newman on Faith, Reason & Unity of Truth - Conversation with Professor David S. Ronderos (Fall 2024)
Star Tours - Why should tourists go to outer space? (Symposeum)
Proficiency Test - A father-daughter story about learning how to fly. And what happens when the alternator fails 6,000 feet above the desert floor. (Air Facts)
Social Science and Other Miraculous Signs - Reading the stats of the times. (The Harvard Ichthus)
Top Gun vs James Bond on the Myths of Progress - When should heroes retire? (GenMod)
The Fun of It - Amelia Earhart lands at the US Capitol. (Ninety-Nines Magazine)
“Can Beauty Save the World?” Talk at St Patrick’s SoHo, London. (Apr 2024)
“Meet the Game Analysts." A conversation about philosophy and video games with the team of With a Terrible Fate.