Lecture Schedule 2026

Feb 14 — Lecture 1: Seneca, “On Providence”
Feb 21 — Lecture 2: The Gospel of John
Feb 28 — Lecture 3: Boethius, Martin Luther King — Conscience (Boethius)

Mar 7 — Lecture 3b: Martin Luther King — Letter from Birmingham Jail
Mar 14 — Lecture 4: Dostoevsky — The Brothers Karamazov
Mar 21 — Lecture 4b: The Grand Inquisitor
Mar 28 — Lecture 5: Elie Wiesel — Night

Apr 4 — Lecture 6: Schweitzer — Out of My Life and Thought
Apr 11 — OFF (Fasika)
Apr 18 — Lecture 7: Goethe — The Sufferings of Young Werther
Apr 25 — Lecture 8: Shakespeare — Hamlet

May 2 — Lecture 9: Sophocles — Ajax
May 9 — Lecture 10: Plato — Epistle VII
May 16 — Lecture 11: Cicero — “On Old Age”
May 23 — OFF (Memorial Day weekend)
May 30 — Lecture 12: Isaac Bashevis Singer — The Penitent

Jun 6 — Lecture 13: Euripides — Alcestis
Jun 13 — Lecture 14: Euripides — Medea
Jun 20 — Lecture 15: Von Strasburg — Tristan and Isolde
Jun 27 — Lecture 16: Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra

Jul 4 — OFF (Independence Day weekend)
Jul 11 — Lecture 17: Shakespeare — Macbeth
Jul 18 — Lecture 18: Aldous Huxley — Brave New World
Jul 25 — Lecture 19: Homer — Odyssey

Aug 1 — Lecture 20: Sophocles — Philoctetes
Aug 8 — Lecture 21: The Song of Roland
Aug 15 — Lecture 22: Nibelungenlied
Aug 22 — Lecture 23: Lewis and Clark — Journals
Aug 29 — Lecture 24: T. E. Lawrence — Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Sep 5 — OFF (Labor Day weekend)
Sep 12 — OFF (Enkutatash)
Sep 19 — Lecture 25: Aristophanes — Comedies
Sep 26 — Lecture 26: Menander — The Grouch

Oct 3 — Lecture 27: Machiavelli — La Mandragola
Oct 10 — Lecture 28: Erasmus — In Praise of Folly
Oct 17 — Lecture 29: Thomas More — Utopia
Oct 24 — Lecture 30: George Orwell — Animal Farm
Oct 31 — Lecture 31: Josephus — History of the Jewish War

Nov 7 — Lecture 32: Joseph Addison — Cato
Nov 14 — Lecture 33: George Washington — Farewell Address
Nov 21 — Lecture 34: Abraham Lincoln, George Patton — War
Nov 28 — OFF (Thanksgiving weekend)

Dec 5 — Lecture 35: Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography
Dec 12 — Lecture 36: The Wisdom of Great Books (Season Finale)