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Today we're delighted to announce our two-month immersive Latin program, held in Sicily and Rome this summer. Latin (and Italian) will be taught from scratch by expert scholars. For further details on the program and full/partial scholarships, please visit
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Dr
@jordanbpeterson
is one of the most celebrated and inspiring teachers in the world. It is an honor to welcome him as our Chancellor.
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Coming tomorrow.
The Logos at Ephesus.
A lecture by our Chancellor, Dr
@jordanbpeterson
, from the steps of the Library of Celsus.
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Thousands of you answered the call for serious and rigorous intellectual training in the humanities. In one month, we had 3300 expressions of interest, and 1000 applications, for only 24 spaces - making our inaugural MA one of the most competitive academic programs in the world.
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Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? Are we ourselves nothing but the playthings of chance, embroiled in a war of all against all?
Join us for a lecture with renowned polymath
@dr_mcgilchrist
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We’re launching our first degree program today, a one-year MA in the Humanities, with study beginning–in Samos, Greece–in August of 2022.
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LIVE EVENT | Join us on June 23rd at 1pm EDT | 6pm BST, for a lecture on Charles Baudelaire and his poetic fusion of the sublime and the grotesque with Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda, lecturer at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Ralston College. Register:
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At the very heart of the Humanities is the search for truth and beauty. Fired by this passion, Ralston College's MA in the Humanities, based in Greece and Savannah, offers a graduate program like no other. Applications are *now open*, and full scholarships available: link below.
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“Ralston is doing something amazing: rekindling the love of our ancient traditions, language, culture, history, and bringing it to young people. To see their exuberance in discovering these treasures is something that gives me hope for the future.” Hear
@pageaujonathan
on Meteora
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If you’re concerned about burn-it-all-down radicalism as a response to perceived injustice, join us for a lecture and discussion with Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) on
#Turgenev
's novel about precisely this question.
Jan. 14, 1pm EST
Register here:
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NEW from the
#RalstonCollegePodcast
:
@stephenblackwd
speaks with
@andrewdoyle_com
(AKA
@TitaniaMcGrath
) about the sovereignty of truth, the morality of satire, and why the asking of real questions is always a reason for hope.
#ListenNow
:
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"When you hear people talk about speech being a form of violence you hear this very sort of censorial attempt to control the way people speak..."
@andrewdoyle_com
(
@TitaniaMcGrath
) on the
#RalstonCollegePodcast
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NEW EPISODE of the
#RalstonCollegePodcast
:
@stephenblackwd
speaks with
@andrewdoyle_com
(AKA
@TitaniaMcGrath
) about the sovereignty of truth, the morality of satire, and why the asking of real questions is always a reason for hope. Listen here:
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Today the first degree program of Ralston College—an MA in the Humanities—begins in view of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
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Ralston College congratulates its first graduates, twenty-two extraordinary men and women admitted to the degree of Master of Arts. We are proud to call them members of the College, and look forward to seeing what they create, discover, and achieve.
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Listen to
@dr_mcgilchrist
’s tour-de-force lecture on the nature of opposites, hosted by
@stephenblackwd
on the latest
#RalstonCollegePodcast
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Join us March 4 @ 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT / 9 pm GMT for a livestream event with
@andrewdoyle_com
on his new book released TODAY “Free Speech and Why it Matters” followed by a discussion with
@stephenblackwd
.
#Register
here:
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We are delighted to share with the world Jonathan Pageau's recent lecture on "Cosmic symbolism and the metaphor for self-discovery". The full lecture, with Q&A from both Ralston students and members of the public, can be watched here:
@PageauJonathan
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On the tension between what one thinks and what one feels one ought to think, join us for a lecture by Theodore Dalrymple on HG Wells's "The Time Machine"
tomorrow, Thursday March 17th at 1pm ET.
Free registration here:
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Join us on March 4 @ 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT / 9 pm GMT for a livestream event with
@andrewdoyle_com
(
@TitaniaMcGrath
) on his new book “Free Speech and Why it Matters” followed by a discussion with
@stephenblackwd
.
#Register
here:
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The full series of Professor Hedley's Sophia Lectures is now available to view on our YouTube channel:
Ralston College is delighted to announce the publication of our Sophia Lectures for 2023: Professor Douglas Hedley on the Spirit of Play. An introductory interview, and the first of these five lectures, is now streaming here:
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Join us on March 4 @ 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT / 9 pm GMT for a livestream event with
@andrewdoyle_com
on his new book “Free Speech and Why it Matters” – he will discuss all things
#censorship
and
#freespeech
.
#Register
here:
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“…What we have loved
Others will love, and we will teach them how;
Instruct them how the mind of man becomes
A thousand times more beautiful than the earth
On which he dwells, above this frame of things…”
- The Prelude, William Wordsworth
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A glimpse of Ralston College's growing collection of Classics books—from Homer to Byzantium, with so much to fascinate in between:
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The University of Cambridge was once rightly and widely regarded as the greatest scientific university that has ever existed. Incidents such as this make that view increasingly untenable. St Edmund's College has altogether disgraced itself.
I have just learned that the mob has been successful in getting social scientist Noah Carl fired from his position at Cambridge. The statement from St. Edmund's apologises for the "hurt" caused by his appointment. Read the back-story here
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Ralston College is delighted to announce the publication of our Sophia Lectures for 2023: Professor Douglas Hedley on the Spirit of Play. An introductory interview, and the first of these five lectures, is now streaming here:
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Ralston College was pleased to host the
@FT
's
@jemimajoanna
on Samos, the birthplace of Pythagoras and the starting point for our Ancient Greek language course. All students who win a place on our Humanities MA begin by studying the Classics out in Greece.
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Earlier this year, we made the leap from idea to reality with the launch of our first degree program—an MA in the Humanities, which began in Greece and continues in Savannah.
Applications for 2023/24 are open now:
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What a wonderful evening — dinner at the steps of the Library of Celsus, in Ephesus.
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JOIN US: January 14th at 6pm (GMT) / 1pm (EST) / 10am (PST) for an event with Theodore Dalrymple (aka Anthony Daniels) on one of the great Russian novels, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Lecture followed by discussion and audience questions:
@theodalrymple
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We were delighted to have
@MrWinMarshall
and Dr
@jordanbpeterson
join us in Greece during our inaugural MA in the Humanities.
Listen to them discuss their experience here.
Ralston College, Savannah
@RalstonCollege
is a University like no other.
@stephenblackwd
@jordanbpeterson
Check out next years program:
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Classicist Joshua Katz takes readers inside the experience of Ralston College, where “students are looking for a real education” and faculty are rejuvenating higher education in America.
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"a little heaven on earth, a monastic academic interlude with genius and talent, collegiality in the etymological sense (“reading together”), guided by attentive, learned professors."
—
@mark_bauerlein
on his visit to Ralston College
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Applications are open for our 2024–25 MA in the Humanities. We guarantee that the most competitive applicants will be able to take up a place on our uniquely inspiring course: full funding is available. For further details, and to start an application, see
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#ICYMI
: We hosted a livestream event with
@andrewdoyle_com
on his new book “Free Speech and Why it Matters”, followed by a discussion and audience Q & A with
@stephenblackwd
. Listen now:
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Very many congratulations to Ralston College's Class of 2024, who graduated this weekend, having completed an MA in the Humanities, which began in Greece and ended in Savannah.
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"What we need in this country are not more critiques of institutions of higher education, but new institutions that actually provide higher education.” -
@stephenblackwd
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"We are beset by what we call 'paradoxes.' We pursue happiness and become measurably less happy over time. We privilege autonomy and end up bound by rules to which we never assented..."
@dr_mcgilchrist
@stephenblackwd
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Ralston College's
@stephenblackwd
participates in a seminar on the Book of Exodus, creatively produced by
@dailywireplus
and
@jordanbpeterson
:
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Ralston College's first online course is now available!
Explore the humane realism of Samuel Johnson in a deep dive into his only novel with Theodore Dalrymple as your guide.
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BANNED AND BURNED: Voltaire’s Philosophical Letters
If you missed last week’s lecture by Alan Charles Kors, there is another chance to hear this preeminent Enlightenment scholar speak about Voltaire. Dr Kors's next talk will be Thursday, April 28 at 1pm ET.
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SERMO LIBER VITA IPSA
Free Speech is Life Itself
Ralston College’s motto was taken from a speech by Sir Salman Rushdie, delivered on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the first amendment, and at risk to his own life, in 1991.
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We guarantee that the most competitive applicants will be able to take up a place on our uniquely inspiring course. For further details, please visit .
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In the city of the birth place of
#Heraclitus
, the philosopher who first, influentially articulated the idea of the Logos as well as the place in which St John lived and ultimately died.
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“I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on… in books…
such staggering peace, such enormous laughter,
such and so many blinding bright lights…
all of which were words, words, words… each of which… alive forever
in… delight and glory and oddity and light.”
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Ralston College is delighted to announce the Sophia Lectures for 2024–25: Dr Iain McGilchrist will explore "Wholeness, Imagination, and the Cosmos" over three sessions in Savannah, GA, on March 13–15.
Tickets are free and open to all:
@dr_mcgilchrist
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Discite Latine nobiscum per duos menses in Italia hac aestate degendos!
Learn Latin with us over two months spent in Italy this summer!
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“Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.” WH Auden
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‘All these things that we see as pieces of our civilization, they had to be created by somebody. And that somebody in the next generation could be you.’
@stephen_wolfram
with
@stephenblackwd
on the Ralston College Podcast
YouTube:
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President at Ralston College
@stephenblackwd
discusses the growing movement - which Ralston intends to lead - to restore education, and the idea of the university itself, with
@mark_bauerlein
, contributing editor of “First Things.”
@firstthingsmag
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All are warmly welcome to hear Dr Alex Petkas
@costofglory
for a lecture entitled
Plato on How to Tell Great Stories
this Thursday in Savannah. Details below:
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What is the 'Higher' in 'Higher Education'?
A conversation between Jordan Peterson, Heather Mac Donald, and Stephen Blackwood.
@jordanbpeterson
@HMDatMI
@stephenblackwd
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Join us for a lecture and conversation with the internationally bestselling psychiatrist, philosopher, and literary scholar Dr Iain McGilchrist on Tuesday, October 26th.
Register here:
@dr_mcgilchrist
@stephenblackwd
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The fifth and final instalment of Douglas Hedley's Sophia Lecture series is now online: "Theology and Joy in the Cosmos". Here is a recap of the fourth lecture, with a link to the fifth below:
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A few tickets have opened up for Ralston College's Sophia Lectures next week featuring Dr Iain McGilchrist on "Wholeness, Imagination, and the Cosmos".
Join us in Savannah to hear this distinguished psychiatrist, neuroscientist, philosopher, and literary scholar as he explores…
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“We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.” - T.S. Eliot
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The dinner was a feast as rich in its food and hospitality as it was for its post-lecture discussion.
“In the beginning was the Word…”
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Since there is no better source for what a university course is like on the ground than its actual students, we are proud to share this video in which Ralston graduates reflect on their transformative studies in both Greece and Georgia:
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Applications for our Summer Latin Program close on Monday 3 June: if you would relish the adventure of learning that ancient language, along with Italian, over two months in many of the most remarkable ancient sites, just visit to see how you can.
Today we're delighted to announce our two-month immersive Latin program, held in Sicily and Rome this summer. Latin (and Italian) will be taught from scratch by expert scholars. For further details on the program and full/partial scholarships, please visit
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A truly amazing breakthrough which will unlock unknown amounts of unknown Greek (and Latin) texts that were lost to the eruption of Mt Vesuvius 2,000 years ago. What better time to learn Ancient Greek and Greek philosophy? We are ready to go; come join us.
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000…
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TOMORROW at 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT / 9 pm GMT: A
#livestream
event with
@andrewdoyle_com
(
@TitaniaMcGrath
) on his new book “Free Speech and Why it Matters” followed by a discussion with
@stephenblackwd
.
#freespeech
#Register
here:
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Γύμναζε σεαυτὸν πόνοις ἑκουσίοις ὅπως ἂν δύνῃ καὶ τοὺς ἀκουσίους ὑπομένειν.
“Exercise yourself with voluntary toils so that you can endure involuntary ones.” (Isocrates)
The Ralston gymnasium is now open, where we uncover the potential we have hidden in body and soul.
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Ralston Conversations II
@jordanbpeterson
and
@stephenblackwd
talk about our cultural inflection point and higher education:
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One year after the first dramatic reading of her translation of the “Bacchae”, which took place in Samos, Greek Scholar Emily Wendt (MA, ‘23) reflects on the experience of directing and performing in a full production of this play in Savannah to a sold-out audience:
“I was very…
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Ralston College is proud to be cited in
@TheCriticMag
as an institution offering something different and essential in the Humanities: our novelty lies in respecting and exploring the very tradition that brought us here. The full article can be read here:
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Tune in now to
@MorningsMaria
as
@stephenblackwd
and
@MariaBartiromo
discuss higher education!
@FoxBusiness
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Our publication of Douglas Hedley's Sophia Lectures on The Spirit of Play continues. Here is a recap of his first lecture; the second, entitled "Play, Poetry, Philosophy", is available on the link below.
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“‘We can’t take for granted that our fundamental freedoms, of speech, conscience and association, will still be there 20 years from now,’ says Ralston’s president, Stephen Blackwood.
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Dr Lawrence Schall, President of the New England Commission of Higher Education, describes his recent visit to Ralston College:
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The dinner marked the inaugural lecture from the Chancellor of Ralston College, Dr Jordan Peterson, to the College’s inaugural MA cohort.
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Dr Peterson lectured on the nature, power, and importance of the Logos (Λόγος), from its earliest stirrings in the philosophical theology of Ancient Greece, through the visionary writings of John the Apostle.
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A conversation between
@jordanbpeterson
and
@Roger_Scruton
moderated by
@stephenblackwd
and introduced by Professor Douglas Hedley of
@CamPlatonism
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JOIN US TODAY! @ 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT / 9 pm GMT for a livestream event with
@andrewdoyle_com
(
@TitaniaMcGrath
) on his new book “Free Speech and Why it Matters” followed by a discussion with
@stephenblackwd
.
#Register
here:
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Our Humanities MA cohort for 2024–25 will contain 35 of the most talented and curious young minds. If you would like to be part of that group, start your application below. Full scholarships are available:
At the very heart of the Humanities is the search for truth and beauty. Fired by this passion, Ralston College's MA in the Humanities, based in Greece and Savannah, offers a graduate program like no other. Applications are *now open*, and full scholarships available: link below.
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In our latest podcast release, Ralston College President Stephen Blackwood delivers the Drummond Lecture at
@Hillsdale
College, entitled "'What a Piece of Work is a Man': Radical Thoughts on Human Nature". It may be viewed in full here:
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Listen to Nobel Laureate Dr Vernon Smith explain to
@stephenblackwd
how his experimental market games revealed that it is thoughtful reciprocity - not brute self-interest - that lies at the heart of human economic behaviour.
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All are welcome to join us for Dr Kors's lecture--to better understand Voltaire’s historical moment and our own.
April 28th at 1pm ET
Register here:
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“Come my friends, ‘tis not too late to seek a newer world. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are… heroic hearts… strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
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Ralston College is delighted to announce that it is offering full-tuition fellowships to twenty students for the inaugural year of its MA in Humanities.
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As the new year dawns, we welcome 2024 with enthusiasm and hope. To mark the occasion, we are excited to share the second video instalment from our first cohort of graduates, who reflect on how Ralston's MA in the Humanities changed their lives profoundly.
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Voltaire’s defense of these values is perhaps even more relevant now than it was in his own time. Free exchange, rational debate, and the ideals on which they depend need a champion like Voltaire today; in Dr Kors, they find a lucid and penetrating interpreter.
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JOIN US | for a public lecture series with scholars who have dedicated their lives to thinking, writing, and talking about the role of the liberal arts and free speech in the university.
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Stephen Blackwood of
@RalstonCollege
moderated a heavy-hitting panel this weekend at the inaugural
@diss_dialogues
conference in New York.
@glukianoff
,
@Docstockk
,
@JohnHMcWhorter
, and
@sapinker
joined him to tackle the question ‘Fixing Harvard: Can the Universities be Saved?’
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The setting for the lecture could not have been more appropriate or inspiring: in the shadow of one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world.
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Join us for a conversation with architect, author, and survivor of the Syrian Civil War,
@marwa_alsabouni
, whose tender yet piercing insight brings clarity to questions facing us all.
Register here:
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Ralston’s MA in the Humanities is an intense, inspiring, and transformative course on the questions that matter most. Today, we share four students’ reflections on the program. First, Anand Mangal talks about how he moved from modern tech to ancient texts:
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“In the twentieth century we forgot about the dead, paid little heed to the yet-to-be-born, and just concentrated on ourselves. That’s why the West went terribly philistine: because it gave up on culture. Culture is above all a communion with the dead.”
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Join us on May 19 at 12pm ET for a lecture by Dr Arif Ahmed, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Dr Ahmed will assess the Enlightenment giant David Hume’s argument about the nature of the self or “soul.” Discussion with
@stephenblackwd
to follow.
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"The problem is that we have failed to transmit what is fundamental: a culture adequate to the spiritual nature of human beings. Think tanks and marginal tax rates won’t do it."
@stephenblackwd
@Scruton_Legacy
:
#RogerScruton
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After careful deliberation, we have decided to postpone the
#SavannahSymposium
on account of
#COVID19
. We look forward to announcing new dates and details as soon as possible.
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"Ralston matters because its very existence puts us on the right path to sanity - I maintain that it takes just one indoctrination-free generation to set society back on the right track." New article by Hannah Gal in
@lotuseaters_com
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Should art be beautiful? This forbidden question guides
@stephenblackwd
's conversation with eminent sculptor and aesthetic luminary, Alexander Stoddart in the latest episode of the
#RalstonCollegePodcast
. Listen now:
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"It is not a matter of returning to the past but of consecrating the present" New article in
@firstthingsmag
by
@stephenblackwd
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