December Update
We are about to roll out a big opening salvo of content!
What you can expect in December:
On December 9th, Brian Cerberus Wilson will kick off the first online course, HUM 302 Which Way Western Man: Nationalism vs. Globalism. There will be recorded lectures, comment exchanges on the substack, a twitter group chat, and 3 optional live audio discussion sessions for those who have officially enrolled. Enrollment information is here. The world must be many or one. Where do you stand?
The effortlessly handsome Phocaean Dionysius will begin an essay series on Jean Jacque Rousseau’s The Social Contract. These will be freely available for everyone. After that, he is planning supplementary essays on Locke and Hobbes for subscribers only. Phocaean is NOT writing about your grandfather’s liberalism! His grasp on the intent and aims of these thinkers is nearly unparalleled—you will not see them the same way after reading Phoc’s work.
A friend of the college will begin an essay series called “Ad Fontes”, which will first feature a piece on the ancient poet Sappho. The series is based on this Erasmus quotation:
Sed in primis ad fontes ipsos properandum, id est graecos et antiquos.
"First of all hasten to the sources themselves, that is, the Greeks and ancients."At Montana Classical College we want to spend our time in the presence of the most outstanding minds that have graced our planet; so, we turn to the sources themselves rather than stale academic work about these thinkers.
If you would like to write for Montana Classical College please reach out to @Cerberus399bc or theblueowl@tutanota.com. Some talented authors have already contacted us and we will likely see their work grace our pages soon.
Summer Plans
Plans are being laid for an in person summer program to begin in 2022 (there might be a smaller friends of the college summit in summer 2021 if funding permits). The plan is to get 20-30 young adults together for about 2 weeks with about 4 instructors. We will rent cabins or large houses in a beautiful part of Montana. There will be calisthenics in the morning, group discussion seminars in the afternoon, and lectures in the evening. The day will wrap up with plenty of time for everyone to relax and get to know each other. Over the weekend we will go on a long hike and camp out and learn various survival techniques and how to become more capable and self-sufficient when approaching the practical problems of every day life.
Deep bonds will be formed through weighty discussions of the fundamental problems and through pushing the body to its limits. And if two weeks of this kind of experience is that enriching, then why not try it for four years?