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Totalitarian Novels
Totalitarian novels depict regimes that exert complete and pervasive control over the lives of their subjects. George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, and C.S. Lewis imagine the terrible possibilities of unchecked modern tyranny. Join Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, and Hillsdale College students in this exploration of 1984, Brave New World, Darkness at Noon, and That Hideous Strength.
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Who Was Cicero?
March 6, 2025
John Adams wrote that “all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero.” Speaking over 1800 years after the death of antiquity’s most famous orator, John Adams attested to the enduring power of Cicero’s extraordinary life. Cicero’s synthesis of philosophy and statesmanship was extraordinary because it seemed to defy a proverbial problem first a...
The President, the Judiciary, and the Constitution
February 27, 2025
The news has been flooded in recent weeks with articles about constitutional battles between the President and the judiciary regarding immigration law. But these battles would have surprised the founders. According to the plain text of the Constitution, an explicit grant of executive power to the President is that “he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” In lecture two of our ...
The Birth of Roman Liberty
February 20, 2025
The Roman Empire may have fallen in 476 AD, but the legacy it left was one of the most momentous in human history. The desire to imitate the Roman model of greatness and liberty under law was a primary inspiration behind the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the American founding. Many of Shakespeare’s greatest plays are reflections on the Roman regime and Roman character. In the modern da...
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