MCC Labor Day Relaunch

The Future is (B)Right

After writing about MCC’s evolution, I’ve been stockpiling recordings and essays. I admire writers / lecturers / podcasters who are able to offer their fruits with regularity. Institutions usually have some kind of schedule.

For the rest of September, there will be a lecture or essay put out every Wednesday and Saturday.

For every month thereafter, I promise to put out something every Wednesday, rain or shine; Saturdays will turn into bonuses. I want to put forward more in the first month of the relaunch to rekindle the flame.

In the past when I have written updates, I wrote about the kind of things I wanted to provide, but which I did not yet know if I would have the time or subsequent desire to provide. For this update, the things being forecasted have already been recorded or written.

Here is what you can expect (and not merely hope for) in September:

1. We will start with an overflowing of health by putting out a lecture on Diomedes’ aristeia in books 5 and 6 of Homer’s Iliad on Labor Day to celebrate the relaunch in the most beautiful and powerful way. This continues our Iliad course. (by the way, William Wheelright (@ploughmansfolly) hosts Friday spaces where he reads the translation of the Iliad by Alexander Pope out loud and follows that with a discussion. I joined him for Book 9 recently now that twitter finally allows regular computers to join spaces; the ending of this insipid prejudice against the smartphone-less is a great boon to the college ).

2. King Bolingbroke, the MCC Endowed Chair of Shakespeare Studies, has recorded the fifth of five discussions with me on Shakespeare’s King Lear.

3. I have finished the fourth of four lectures on Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. This book is amazing and I guarantee that you will not read or listen to anything like these lectures on it.

4. Professor of Political Philosophy at MCC, Phocaean Dionysius, joined me to add a session to our Understanding Modern Liberty course.

5. I have started a series of interviews with men of outstanding virtue who offer salient diagnostic accounts of the contemporary political situation and who offer guidance on the way forward. These professors and anons (not mutually exclusive categories) know what time it is.

6. Two young men who possess wisdom beyond their years (the Son of Numenor and !Jeb Bush¡) will begin a podcast on this site that will not usually include me. These friends are historians first of all, so they know a LOT of things that I don’t. They have also both recently added a lot of political philosophy insights into their psychic architecture, so I think that they will provide excellent content that is highly mission aligned, and something that goes beyond our usual offerings.

7. Essays on education and a book review of Arthur Milikh’s Up From Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay will also be available.

Finally, the Teachable site is being built and is just about ready to go. Three teachers besides myself are building courses for it as we speak. I’ll give you more details on those courses as they come closer to fruition.

By the end of September, nine offerings will be available to you on this site (because of the bonus on Labor Day). If you are the kind of person who is inclined to become a paid subscriber, don’t subscribe until the end of September! Watch the speeches here in this update turn into deeds, and once you firmly perceive an unerring correspondence between speeches and deeds at the end of the month, well, then pledge your support and in so doing, help MCC become both an online school and a brick and mortar institution.