MCC Course Home / Table of Contents
Links to all Courses/Essays/Conversations are here
As the project grows and the archive becomes cumbersome to use, this page will centralize all courses and other content. The links below will take you to course homepages which will feature course descriptions, syllabi, and links to available lectures.
The MCC Manifesto offers a summative statement on the vision of the school, drawing from a number of essays written over the years.
Current and Future Course Offerings:
LIT 101: Introduction to Literature [All lectures available]
POL 204: An Introduction to Bacon’s New Atlantis [All lectures available]
HUM 302: Nationalism vs. Globalism [7 lectures available; course in progress]
POL 205: Understanding Modern Liberty: Constant, Berlin, Strauss, and Sidorsky (Co-taught with Phocaean Dionysius) [All lectures available]
LIT 400: An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad [10 lectures available; course in progress]
LIT 404: Shakespeare as Political Philosopher: Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra. (much of it is co-taught with King Bolingbroke [6 lectures available; course in progress]
Essays on MCC’s mission and vision for the future:
Classical Conversations: A Podcast Series
Kruptos on building a parallel polity, the enframing of thinking by technology, and the loss of virtue.
Nobody on the core differences between ancient and modern poets, poetry vs. philosophy, and possibilities for the contemporary poet.
Lance Legion on contemporary military officer education, Romans vs. Greeks, Agamemnon, Julius Caesar, and the relation between Christianity / Vitalism.
Jeremy Carl on Hungary, right wing environmentalism, immigration, and Christian nationalism.
Space Age Maximalist on engineers as aristocrats of the future, technological optimism, and how to merge scientific and humanistic thinking.
William Wheelwright on agriculture preceding culture, a vision for a new school, and Homer’s Iliad.
Phocaean Dionsyius on Aristocratical Christianity (our second conversation on this)
David Azerrad on the American founding, a diagnostic account of the contemporary situation, and thoughts about how to move forward.
On Reason and Love in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing with King Bolingbroke
A Time for Tomahawks: Posserilla with Clawson Smith
The Problem of Respectability with Johann Kurtz
Nietzsche and Aristocratic Christianity with Phocaean Dionysius
Essays on the History of Political Philosophy:
On Rousseau’s Social Contract Book One by Phocaean Dionysius
On Rousseau’s Social Contract Book Two by Phocaean Dionysius
An Introduction to Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art by Herodotean Dreams
An Introduction to Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology by Herodotean Dreams
On the “Neutrality of Universal Human Rights” by MCC
Classical Scholarship in the Classical Age by Dominated by Dig Dug
Right-Wing Thought and the Reemergence of Philosophy by Phocaean Dionysius
On the Difference Between Reading and Thinking by MCC
The Problem of Writing for Others by MCC
Book Reviews:
Mr. Wilson, Greetings from Yellowstone County. Douglas Dye, CEO & co-founder of Manalive Media Group, here.
On the off chance you see this, I'd very much appreciate speaking. I can be reached at douglas.dye@manalivemediagroup.com
Thank ou for your consideration. I wish you every success with this wonderful venture.
Peace, Douglas