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Can We Re-Enchant the World?
A radical idea from Owen Barfield
Aug 8 • Athenaeum Book Club
How Will Beauty Save the World?
Understanding Dostoevsky's claim
Jul 25 • Athenaeum Book Club
The Greatest Novel Ever Written?
An intro to The Brothers Karamazov
Jul 23 • Athenaeum Book Club
Tolkien's Guide to Re-Enchanting Your Life
How to recover your sight
Jul 18 • Athenaeum Book Club and Beauty Matters
Paradise Lost and the Root of All Evil
An introduction to Milton’s theodicy
Jul 12 • Athenaeum Book Club and Sean Berube
3 Life Lessons From Aristotle
Practical wisdom from the Nicomachean Ethics
Jul 6 • Athenaeum Book Club
Is Mankind Really Progressing?
Plato, Tolkien, and technology without virtue
Jul 4 • Athenaeum Book Club and Sean Berube
How to Reclaim Your Imagination
G.K. Chesterton on regaining agency
Jun 21 • Athenaeum Book Club
The Greatest Novel You’ve Never Read
From the world's greatest novelist...
Jun 18 • Athenaeum Book Club
The 3 Waves That Broke Western Civilization
Leo Strauss and the crisis of modernity
Jun 14 • Athenaeum Book Club and Sean Berube
Why We Must Think Like Medievals Again
C.S. Lewis's mental model
Jun 7 • Athenaeum Book Club and Beauty Matters
Aristotle's Guide to a Good Life
Intro to the Nicomachean Ethics
Jun 4 • Athenaeum Book Club
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