I’m pleased to announce that I am offering seven private online courses during 2026. Topics range from the feminism of Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf to Plato’s classic dialogue, Meno. I’m particularly excited about reading Margaret Mitchell’s woefully misunderstood epic of the American South, Gone With the Wind. The courses can be taken individually or as short sequences. Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce that I am offering nine private online courses during 2025. Topics range from the comedies of Aristophanes to Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, Brothers Karamazov. I’m particularly excited about reading Percival Everett’s new novel James alongside Mark Twain’s classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The courses can be taken individually or as short sequences. Continue reading
This autumn I’ll be offering three private online courses on works by some of the intellectual giants of the mid-twentieth century: George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus. The courses can be taken individually or as a series. Continue reading
On Monday, 3 September 2024, 6:00–7:30p CT, I will be teaching a free private online course about “close reading” that is suitable for novices and veterans alike. Continue reading
2024 is the 50th anniversary (#ZMM50 #ZMM50th) of the publication of Robert Pirsig’s modern classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. As part of the nationwide commemoration of this milestone, this summer I will be teaching two related online courses that can be taken independently or together. Continue reading
On Friday, 2 December 2022 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture online. My topic will be:
Great Books and Big Lies
(“Theirs” and “Ours”)
The lecture is free and open to the public.
On Friday, 2 July 2021 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture online. My topic will be:
Home Front, War Front:
“Mrs. Miniver” and “Scarlett O’Hara” as the Interpretive Keys to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
The lecture is free and open to the public.
On Friday, 7 August 2020 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture online. My topic will be:
“Impeachment”
in the Constitutional Sense
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Friday, 10 January 2020 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
Getting Comfortable with Death;
Or, Better Dying Through Better Thinking
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Friday, 2 August 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:
The White Man’s Peril:
Heart of Darkness as
Conrad’s Reply to Kipling
The lecture is free and open to the public. Continue reading
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