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- 2026 • ONLINE COURSES
Great Books, Great People, Great Fun - 2025 • ONLINE COURSES
Great Books, Great People, Great Fun - AUTUMN 2024 • COURSES
Orwell, Sartre, Camus - 3 SEP 2024 • FREE COURSE
How to Read and Discuss Great Books - JUNE 2024 • COURSES
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - 2 DEC 2022 • LECTURE
Great Books and Big Lies (“Theirs” and “Ours”) - 2 JUL 2021 • LECTURE
Home Front, War Front: “Mrs. Miniver” and “Scarlett O’Hara” as the Interpretive Keys to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun - 7 AUG 2020 • LECTURE
“Impeachment” in the Constitutional Sense - 10 JAN 2020 • LECTURE
Getting Comfortable with Death - 2 AUG 2019 • LECTURE
The White Man’s Peril: Heart of Darkness as Conrad’s Reply to Kipling - 7 SEP 2018 • LECTURE
The Use and Abuse of Gustavus Vassa; Or, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano on Its Own Terms - 16 AUG 2018 • LECTURE
The True Value of Money: Retail Investing as a Gateway to Wisdom - 5 JAN 2018 • LECTURE
Flaunting It: The Logic of “Conspicuous Consumption” in Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class - 1 SEP 2017 • LECTURE
The Content of Our Character: Lessons from Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume One - 23 MAR 2017 • LECTURE
“A Rich Man Who Dies Rich Dies in Disgrace”: Andrew Carnegie and “The Gospel of Wealth” - 6 JAN 2017 • LECTURE
Epic of Id, Epic of Superego: A Freudian Reading of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey - 17 NOV 2016 • LECTURE
Only in Chicago, Only at the University of Chicago: The Basic Program at 70 - 2 Sep 2016 • LECTURE
Group Therapy with Great Books: On the Remaking of Adults through Lifelong Liberal Re-Education - 31 Mar 2016 • LECTURE
“The Holy Trible”: The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur’an as an Abrahamic Trilogy - 6 Nov 2015 • LECTURE
“The Great Conversation” at Chicago: The First 125 Years - JUL 2015 • COURSES
Online at GreatDiscourses.com - 25 APR 2015 • LECTURE
Bringing the Heroic Home: The Odyssey as Homer’s Guide to Being a Mensch - 6 MAR 2015 • LECTURE
“We Must Not Be Afraid To Be Free”: The Trials of George Anastaplo - 17 JAN 2015 • PANELIST
The Great Books Idea: Differing Perspectives - 14 DEC 2014 • LECTURE
From the Ashes of the Second Temple: The Co-Evolution of Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity - NOV 2014 • COURSES
Online at GreatDiscourses.com - 2 NOV 2014 • LECTURE
Universal Monotheism and Its Others in the Late Second Temple Period - SEP 2014 • COURSES
Online at GreatDiscourses.com - 5 SEP 2014 • LECTURE
“It Can’t Happen Here”? A (Frightening) Look at American Dystopias - 11 MAY 2014 • LECTURE
The Gospel According to Muhammad: The Qur’an’s Account of Jesus as a Non-Canonical Gospel - 4 MAY 2014 • LECTURE
Online Socratic Method Seminars in Adult Congregation Education: A Look at Today’s Realities and Possibilities - 30 MAR 2014 • LECTURE
“For He Shall Save His People from Their Sins”: The Gospel According to Matthew as Jewish Literature - SPRING 2014 • COURSES
Online at LibertasU.com - 1 NOV 2013 • LECTURE
“A Rich Man Who Dies Rich Dies in Disgrace”: Andrew Carnegie and “The Gospel of Wealth” - 27 OCT 2013 • LECTURE
You Say “Yahweh”, I Say “The LORD”; Or, Why God by Any Other Name Ain’t - 26 OCT 2013 • LECTURE
On the Transvaluation of Viking Values: Nietzsche Reads Beowulf - SUMMER 2013 • COURSE
Homer’s Iliad at the National Hellenic Museum - 9-14 JUN 2013 • COURSES
Artesian Bough Symposium 2013 at Fountain Point, Leelanau, Michigan - 7 JUN 2013 • LECTURE
Aeneas Gets an Epic: Virgil’s Aeneid and the Invention of the ‘Greco-Roman’ World - 11 NOV 2012 • LECTURE
Of Hanukkah and Holy War: The Clash of Hellenism and Judaism in 1 & 2 Maccabees - 27 OCT 2012 • LECTURE
Words at War: Rhetoric as a Weapon of Mass Destruction - 7 SEP 2012 • LECTURE
Fighting Theater with Theater: Plato’s Dialogues as Philosophical Dramas