Here is a brief update on Montana Classical College.
I have been much busier over the past two months at my normal job than I would have liked. The good news is that I will have about 10 days of leisure after next week.
There are a number of things I’ve been working on that I haven’t had a chance to publish or record that will roll out during that break:
A recorded discussion with twitter user @Kingbolingbroke on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (March 26th). The play is a comedy and has many arguments about eros or the place of romantic love in a well lived life. Bolingbroke is a highly intelligent thinker about Shakespeare who I expect to learn much from and hope to record with again in the future.
A lecture on books 5 and 6 of Homer’s Iliad. This has been almost complete for awhile but I really wanted the account of Diomedes to be excellent so I’ve been picking at the editing longer than I should have. A resource guide that I have compiled to help students of the poem is available here.
A lecture for the Nationalism vs. Globalism course on Michael Anton’s The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return. This lecture comes a little bit out of order but I had the opportunity to read it with a local reading group so I thought I would post a recording of my thoughts on it now rather than waiting for the end of the course.
A lecture for the Nationalism vs. Globalism course on Pierre Manent’s A World Beyond Politics?: A Defense of the Nation State. I’m reading this with a local friend (who is not part of the aforementioned reading group) and will discuss it with him over this period and have been taking chapter by chapter notes that will form the basis of the lecture.
An essay on the problem of writing for others (the problem of honor / recognition) that was inspired by a previous essay on the “The Difference between Reading and Thinking.” The new essay will cover striking moments from Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac and Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History.
A completed version of a discussion on Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (that looks to Camille Paglia’s commentary) will come out. The first part of the recording is available here but the rest of the recording will be posted during the break.
A LIVE IN PERSON MEETING over the summer. I put this at the end of the list because I am only interested in people attending who really care about the mission of the college: promoting noble deeds, understanding nature, and defending the nation state / sovereignty of peoples. Everyone who attends this meeting has to have had AT LEAST one live conversation with me before being admitted. The location of our in person meeting will not be disclosed to anyone who is not present and anonymity will be respected at the meeting. This will not quite be the full in person summer class that I was originally planning but it will be a chance for MCC enthusiasts and other friendly RW’ers to talk about how to bring a healthy parallel university / culture into being. If you are interested please email me at theblueowl@tutanota.com or DM me at @MTClassical on twitter. A handful of people have already expressed interest and are invited; so please let me know if you are interested as well.
Looking forward to it
Exciting to see how much there is in the pipeline