Hillsdale is offering a free, online course on “The Great Books.” A relatively short catalogue of works—The Iliad, The Odyssey, Oedipus Rex, The Aeneid, Augustine’s Confessions, The Inferno, Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and some Bible passages—but it includes lectures by Professor David Whalen, who was my professor for the full Great Books course when I was a student there. Dr. Whalen is simply the best professor I ever had for any subject, bar none,* and the chance to hear him teach is not to be missed. I strongly recommend signing up for that reason, alone.
*-Which is not to say I agree with him on everything; quite the contrary.
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