Lecture Schedule 2026

February

• Feb 14 — Lecture 1: Seneca, On Providence

• Feb 21 — Lecture 2: The Gospel of John

• Feb 28 — Lecture 3: Boethius — Conscience

March

• 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

April

• 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

• May 2 — Lecture 9: Sophocles — Ajax

• May 9 — Lecture 10: Plato — Epistle VII

• May 16 — Lecture 11: Cicero — On Old Age

• May 23 — Lecture 12: Isaac Bashevis Singer — The Penitent

• May 30 — Lecture 13: Euripides — Alcestis

June

• Jun 6 — Lecture 14: Euripides — Medea

• Jun 13 — Lecture 15: Von Strasburg — Tristan and Isolde

• Jun 20 — Lecture 16: Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra

• Jun 27 — Lecture 17: Shakespeare — Macbeth

July

• Jul 4 — OFF (Independence Day weekend)

• Jul 11 — Lecture 18: Aldous Huxley — Brave New World

• Jul 18 — Lecture 19: Homer — Odyssey

• Jul 25 — Lecture 20: Sophocles — Philoctetes

August

• Aug 1 — Lecture 21: The Song of Roland

• Aug 8 — Lecture 22: Nibelungenlied

• Aug 15 — OFF

• Aug 22 — Lecture 23: Lewis and Clark — Journals

• Aug 29 — Lecture 24: T. E. Lawrence — Seven Pillars of Wisdom

September

• Sep 5 — OFF (Labor Day weekend)

• Sep 12 — OFF (Enkutatash)

• Sep 19 — Lecture 25: Aristophanes — Comedies

• Sep 26 — Lecture 26: Menander — The Grouch

October

• 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

November

• 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)

December

• Dec 5 — Lecture 35: Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography

• Dec 12 — Lecture 36: The Wisdom of Great Books (Season Finale)