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
On Friday, 7 September 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 Use and Abuse of Gustavus Vassa; Or, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano on Its Own Terms
The lecture is free and open to the public.
On Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving a Lunchtime Lecture at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center (450 N Cityfront Plaza Dr). My topic will be:
The True Value of Money:
Retail Investing as a Gateway to Wisdom
The lecture is free and open to the public. Continue reading
On Friday, 5 January 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:
Flaunting It:
The Logic of “Conspicuous Consumption” in
Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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On Friday, 1 September 2017 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 Content of Our Character:
Lessons from Gibbon’s
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Volume One
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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