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Humanities Crash Course Week 35: Romanticism
Grappling with poetry infused with powerful mythological imagery.
Aug 31
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 34: Sturm und Drang
Exploring the unreasonable pursuit of personal passions via works of fiction and meta-fiction.
Aug 25
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 33: Rational Foundations for Morality
Three texts that ground knowledge, nature, and morality on solid philosophical foundations.
Aug 17
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 32: Voltaire
Thoughts on a classic philosophical novel with an undesirable stance toward undesirable circumstances.
Aug 10
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 31: Political Theory
Delving into two classic books that explore evergreen political tensions.
Aug 3
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Jorge Arango
July 2025
Humanities Crash Course Week 30: Self-deception
Musings on delusion triggered by one of the best novels ever written.
Jul 27
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 29: Shakespeare III
Thoughts on moral responses to prejudice and injustice spurred by the Bard and Spike Lee.
Jul 20
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 28: Renaissance Geniuses
Thoughts on patronage spurred by the lives of some of the world's most important artists.
Jul 13
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 27: Shakespeare II
Reflections on self-referential art inspired by the bard's most famous romantic works.
Jul 6
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Jorge Arango
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June 2025
Humanities Crash Course Week 26: Shakespeare I
Across centuries, the bard warns us that subverting the ‘natural’ order of things can have dire consequences.
Jun 29
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 25: The Divine Comedy
Following Dante out of hell onto (hopefully) better things.
Jun 22
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 24: Divine Love
Two poems by Dante Alighieri, and what they tell us about living a good life.
Jun 15
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Jorge Arango
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