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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
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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Humanities Crash Course Week 37: Jane Austen
How ChatGPT helped me enjoy — and learn from — a classic 19th century novel.
Sep 14
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Jorge Arango
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Humanities Crash Course Week 36: Revolutions
Three radically different approaches to remaking society.
Sep 7
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Jorge Arango
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August 2025
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
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