Growing in knowledge one book at a time.
By Karl Schudt, Seminar Host I fell asleep reading Herodotus last week. I awoke in his study in Halicarnassus. He’s wide-eyed, insistent, takes me by the hand, and leads me into his study. Once there, he gets me a cup of tea. I’m more of a coffee guy, but it’s good tea. Herodotus shows me […]
By Ben McAllister Every era has a defining anxiety. Today, we live in an era of technological anxiety. We ask ourselves questions like: What are smartphones doing to us? Is social media making us miserable? Will automation lead to mass unemployment? We’ve been asking these kinds of questions since the industrial revolution. The early 20th-century […]
By Alex Fader “In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away. …You have a much better chance of understanding [the Great Book] on a second reading, but that requires you to have read the book […]
By Steven Roberts Steven Roberts has been a member of Online Great Books for a little under a year now. Steven graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in Classical Piano Performance and is attending St. Vladimir’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York starting this August. Living on Long Island, he enjoys reading the Classics, […]
By Malachy Walsh, Seminar Host Books as Friends? There’s a definite logic to the old saying that we can be measured by the company we keep. One thing that makes us feel good and even a little proud about reading Great Books is that we are keeping great company. Of course, there’s a downside of […]
By Karl Schudt, Seminar Host Notre Dame caught fire this week. It took a while for it to hit me, but it hit me hard. I’ve never been there, but I have rattled around a few cathedrals in Germany. I like to climb the towers, if they’ll let me. Why did it bother me? It’s […]
By John Syc “Denied, not committed to the field of human resources.” This was the feedback I received after an interview for a coveted internship at a Fortune 10 company about 15 years ago. I protested. I laid out the commitment by reiterating my graduate studies, my other internships, my leadership roles…how dare they say […]
By Katie King I’ve been in a workshop setting before, so I know that’s not the issue. In fact, I loved it. In writing classes in college, we’d sit in a round table, never more than 20 of us, and discuss short stories, poetry, rhetorical theories, fantastical fiction, you name it. The artifacts we’d pick […]
By Gil Guillory First, a quick restatement of Socrates’ argument found on 474-475 in Gorgias: Good and admirable are not the same. Bad and shameful are not the same. Whatever is admirable is admirable because it causes pleasure or benefit, or both. Whatever is […]
By Danny Knesek The author of this piece is an OGB member in addition to being Director of Rhythm Design Co. This blog post was originally posted to his website. At some point, everybody in marketing deals with the problem of having their campaigns not produce any results. Great marketers come up with the catchiest and […]