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Humanities Crash Course Week 48: Borges
What my favorite author can teach us about the nature of language.
Nov 30
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 47: Short Fiction
Empathizing with other lives by experiencing literary “virtual realities.”
Nov 23
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 46: Freud
Sometimes, a mindless popcorn flick is just a mindless popcorn flick.
Nov 16
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 45: More Modernism
Exploring works that express ideas and feelings by transcending media conventions.
Nov 9
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 44: Modernist Art
Conveying ideas and feelings by transcending conventional words and images.
Nov 2
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Jorge Arango
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October 2025
Humanities Crash Course Week 43: Racial Injustice
Diving into a deeply painful and destructive moral failing: prejudice.
Oct 26
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 42: Evil Flowers
Transcendence as a way to cope with the drabness of everyday life.
Oct 19
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 41: What Moves Us
Learning about memory and motivations from two classic novels.
Oct 12
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 40: Good & Evil
Connecting with meaning by transcending cultural conventions.
Oct 5
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Jorge Arango
September 2025
Humanities Crash Course Week 39: Gothic Horror
Learning about agency and ethics from a 200-year-old novel (and not its more famous film adaptation.)
Sep 28
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 38: Emergence
Perennially relevant lessons about liberty and bottom-up organization from two classic texts.
Sep 21
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Jorge Arango
Two Kinds of Writing
Writing can be a means for thinking. AI can help — but make sure you’re driving.
Sep 16
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Jorge Arango
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