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Discussing "Medea" By Euripides With Evan

Discussing "Mozart On The Way To Prague" By Eduard Mörike

Discussing Petrarch's "Scattered Rhymes"

Discussing Max Planck's "Where Is Science Going?"

Discussing "Novum Organum" By Francis Bacon

Discussing The Oresteia – Part III: Eumenides – By Aeschylus With Evan

How To Actually Learn Any Language

Discussing "The Life Of Saint Louis" By Jean De Joinville

Discussing The Fragments Of Heraclitus

Discussing The Oresteia – Part II: The Libation Bearers – By Aeschylus With Evan

Discussing "The Civilization Of The Renaissance In Italy" By Jacob Burckhardt

Colleges Are Abandoning the Classics — Down 70% Since 2008

Discussing "The Revolt Of The Masses" By Jose Ortega y Gasset

Discussing The Oresteia – Part I: Agamemnon – By Aeschylus With Evan

Discussing "The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism" By Max Weber

Bookstore Talk: Exploring Frankenstein And The World In Which Mary Shelley Created A Monster

Discussing "The Spirit Of The Laws" By Montesquieu

Discussing "Fathers And Sons" By Ivan Turgenev

Discussing "We" By Yevgeny Zamyatin

Discussing "The New Science" By Giambattista Vico – Part II

Discussing "The New Science" By Giambattista Vico – Part I

Discussing "The Devil's Dictionary" By Ambrose Bierce

Discussing "The Last Man" By Mary Shelley

Mendacious Impressions – An Original Short Story

Discussing "Statesman" By Plato

Discussing "Sophist" By Plato

Discussing "Theaetetus" By Plato

Discussing "Cratylus" By Plato

Discussing "Phaedo," Or "On The Soul," By Plato

Discussing "Crito" By Plato

Discussing "Apology" By Plato

Discussing "Euthyphro" By Plato

Discussing "Growth Of The Soil" By Knut Hamsun

Discussing "The Beautiful And Damned" By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Discussing "Don Quixote" By Miguel De Cervantes

Discussing Books, Childbirth, And Stories To Read My Daughter

Discussing Volume II Of "The Decline Of The West" By Oswald Spengler

Discussing Volume I Of "The Decline Of The West" By Oswald Spengler

Discussing Volume III Of "The Gulag Archipelago" By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Discussing Volume II Of "The Gulag Archipelago" By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Discussing Volume I Of "The Gulag Archipelago" By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Discussing "Vanity Fair" By William Makepeace Thackeray

Discussing Selected Writings By George Orwell

Discussing "The Foundations Of Arithmetic" By Gottlob Frege

Discussing "The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" By Laurence Sterne

Discussing "Motley Stones" By Adalbert Stifter

Discussing "Science And Method" By Henri Poincare

Discussing "The Value Of Science" By Henri Poincare

Discussing "Science And Hypothesis" By Henri Poincare

Discussing "Notes From Underground" By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Discussing "Physics And Philosophy" By Werner Heisenberg

Discussing "What Is Art?" By Leo Tolstoy

Discussing "The Country Of The Blind And Other Stories" By H.G. Wells

Discussing Selected Writings By Jonathan Swift

Discussing "Chrestomathy" By Henry Louis Mencken

Discussing "The Rider On The White Horse" By Theodor Storm

Discussing "Ninety-Three" By Victor Hugo

Discussing Essays By Robert Louis Stevenson

Discussing Poetry And Letters By John Keats

Discussing "The Chronicles" By Jean Froissart

Discussing "Martin Eden" By Jack London

Discussing "Under Western Eyes" By Joseph Conrad

Discussing "Parzival" By Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Discussing "The Canterbury Tales" By Geoffrey Chaucer

Discussing "The Annals" By Tacitus

Discussing "First Principles" By Herbert Spencer

Discussing "Tess Of The d'Urbervilles" By Thomas Hardy

Discussing "The House Of The Seven Gables" By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Discussing "Njal's Saga"

Discussing "The Decameron" By Giovanni Boccaccio

Discussing "Dead Souls" By Nikolai Gogol

Discussing "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And The Heroic In History" By Thomas Carlyle

Discussing "Of Plymouth Plantation" By William Bradford

Discussing "The Origins And Deeds Of The Goths" By Jordanes

Discussing "The Prince" By Niccolo Machiavelli

Discussing "In Praise Of Folly" And "Against War" By Desiderius Erasmus

Discussing "The Divine Comedy" By Dante Alighieri

Discussing "The Imaginary Cuckold," "The Bungler," "Don Juan," And Other Plays By Moliere

Discussing "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight"

Discussing "A Journal Of The Plague Year" By Daniel Defoe

Discussing "On The Aesthetic Education Of Man" By Friedrich Schiller

Discussing "The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge" By Rainer Maria Rilke

Discussing "The Red And The Black" By Stendhal

Discussing "The Consolation Of Philosophy" By Boethius

Discussing "Self-Reliance," "Heroism," "The American Scholar," And Other Essays By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discussing "The Song Of Roland"

Discussing "Discourse on Method" by Rene Descartes

Discussing "The History Of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia" by Samuel Johnson

Discussing "Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" by Edmund Burke

Discussing "Outlines Of Pyrrhonism" By Sextus Empiricus

Discussing "The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing" By John Milton

Discussing "On Crimes And Punishments" By Cesare Beccaria

Discussing "Rameau's Nephew" By Denis Diderot