Monthly Archives: May 2014

Socialism is the Atheistic Question

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Dr. J

This week we will pass the 19,000-page mark in the Great Books Project. We are a mere one month shy of our halfway point since our beginning in January 2011. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers … Continue reading →

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Hail Bounteous May

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Dr. J

This week in the Great Books Project we begin one of literature’s greatest psychological works. Gird up your loins for the Brothers K. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (GBWW Vol. 52, … Continue reading →

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Another Volume Down

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Dr. J

With the completion of Don Quixote this past week, we have finished reading ten volumes of the Great Books of the Western World series in their entirety. That leaves 48 to go, only five of which we haven’t read at … Continue reading →

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Zenobia in Chains

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Dr. J

This week we’ll pass the 4,500-page mark in the Man and Society category of this Great Books Project. It’s good to have Gibbon’s lively prose carrying us forward. Here are the readings for the coming week: The History of Don … Continue reading →

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