“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” That line is spoken by Marcellus, a relatively minor character in Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It is important not to minimize lines spoken by minor characters in Shakespeare’s plays. He typically gives them magnificent lines revealing the most important things. Denma...
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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
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Ancient Christianity
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The Great Principles of Chemistry
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The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism
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The Real American Founding: A Conversation
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C.S. Lewis on Christianity
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
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American Citizenship and Its Decline
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The David Story: Shepherd, Father, King
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Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Civil Rights in American History
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Introduction to Western Philosophy
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Classic Children’s Literature
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The Great American Story: A Land of Hope
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Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution
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The Genesis Story: Reading Biblical Narratives
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Introduction to Aristotle’s Ethics: How to Lead a Good Life
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The Second World Wars
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Congress: How It Worked and Why It Doesn’t
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The Young Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
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Western Heritage: From the Book of Genesis to John Locke
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Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Selected Short Stories
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Introduction to the Constitution
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Theology 101: The Western Theological Tradition
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American Heritage: From Colonial Settlement to the Current Day
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The U.S. Supreme Court
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Athens and Sparta
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An Introduction to C.S. Lewis: Writings and Significance
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Winston Churchill and Statesmanship
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The Federalist Papers
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