Not so very long ago, in the middle of a casual chat with a long-time acquaintance in a local café, I made a comment that changed the entire direction of the conversation, “You know, just this morning I read in the Qur’ān that…” No sooner had I finished my sentence than my conversational partner – […]
Since making public my half (if not indeed fully) mad idea of reading the entirety of the St. John’s College Academic Program Reading List, I have received a couple of questions that I think it is important not simply to answer privately but publicly so that there are no misunderstandings about what I am doing […]
In the very first book of his monumental history of the Peloponnesian War, whilst presenting a preliminary survey of the early Hellene culture up to the point of the war’s outbreak, Thucydides muses about the lack of critical thought given to stories and traditions, “even on matters of contemporary history which have not been obscured […]
Not so very long after beginning my university studies some many years ago, I became aware of a significant hole in my education. Despite being an “A” student all through my primary and secondary school years, I seemed to have graduated high school without ever having read much in the way of books that would […]