Seriously. You think I would have stabbed you with it otherwise?

These people simply think that human life is not worth living

runway to catch up to more contemporary thought and treat that with similar breadth and rigor. That’s just a structural observation and assuming the best (it’s not surprising that a Thomistic program would skew pre-modern in its sympathies).

so much real estate in a four-year program. Ideally a number of these texts would have been studied in high school but it’s not exactly their fault that that’s not likely. The trade-off though of helping students catch up on pre-modern foundations is that there’s not enough

Agreed. I think the main issue is it’s remedial, i.e. it tries to approximate a broad classical education that traditionally would have begun much earlier in one’s education but can longer be assumed. So it basically has to introduce the liberal arts from scratch and there’s only

Deciding to read this Neoplatonically

Yeah I should do that with the kids too. In fairness I should add that Till We Have Faces was marvelous.

You don’t find Mad Men entertaining?

When the clown clocks in at the sewer mines

Activated like the Manchurian candidate

I chose Texas 35 minutes ago

lol I didn’t give up exactly, I just never read them as a kid so I only got around to them when reading to my own kids. We did the first couple but drifted to other things. I do want to get back to them at some point!

Not a big Lewis guy (never got around to finishing Narnia) but this sequence is 👌

neither’wester

Staying ready under the board in case it rims out

I would too but for dramas it’s a short list. Though I still haven’t seen The Wire or more than a few episodes of Deadwood so I’m not caught up on the canon as it were.