What a year this has been. I’ve had a very heavy teaching load and more administrative duties at the university. I’ve also increased my output of scholarly writing and frequency of work-related travel. So this blog has fallen by the wayside.
The good news is that a lighter load is on the horizon, and I plan to begin updating this site more frequently in the coming months. I’ll post some of my recent publications and also resume the Great Books discussion. There’s exciting news to share in the near future. Thanks for sticking around.
The Western Tradition 
Glad to see you back!
Have missed you!
It’s been a year and a half since you last wrote, so I assume you’ve abandoned this project. I enjoyed following along through your first year and a half, albeit years later. I am now using The Great Conversation’s Ten Years of Reading outline to guide my continuing quest to plumb the Great Books for greater enlightenment and a needed antidote to the woes of our COVID-19-impacted world. As much as our circumstances change, human nature remains fundamentally the same. There really is nothing new under the sun…