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Wednesday Night Discussion Group

Discussion Group The Wednesday Night Discussion Group has been meeting at Fireside Coffee since the 2003-2004 school year and features a unique discussion each week about politics, art, culture, science, and more. If you’re interested in a lively conversation in a great atmosphere, feel free to join us at 7:30 each Wednesday. 2011-12 School Year 01 […]

July 23, 2006/by dpogreba

Notes for Classical Foundations

The complete set of notes for the classical foundations unit is located in the class downloads section. Please consider printing only the material that is essential, as there are a lot of pages here.

July 22, 2006/by dpogreba

Wednesday Night Discussion Group

Discussion Group The Wednesday Night Discussion Group has been meeting at Fireside Coffee since the 2003-2004 school year and features a unique discussion each week about politics, art, culture, science, and more. If you’re interested in a lively conversation in a great atmosphere, feel free to join us at 7:30 each Wednesday. 2011-12 School Year 01 […]

July 23, 2006/by dpogreba

Notes for Classical Foundations

The complete set of notes for the classical foundations unit is located in the class downloads section. Please consider printing only the material that is essential, as there are a lot of pages here.

July 22, 2006/by dpogreba

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Wednesday Night Discussion Group

Discussion Group

The Wednesday Night Discussion Group has been meeting at Fireside Coffee since the 2003-2004 school year and features a unique discussion each week about politics, art, culture, science, and more. If you’re interested in a lively conversation in a great atmosphere, feel free to join us at 7:30 each Wednesday.

2011-12 School Year

01 February 2012: Erasing War from the Human Condition by David Green
08 February 2012: Get Dense by Robert Bryce
15 February 2012: Hollywood and Politics by Steven Lloyd Wilson
22 February 2012: The Case for Enhancing People by Ronald Bailey
29 February 2012: The Myth of the Middle by Mark Schmitt
07 March 2012: Why the Environmental Movement is Not Winning by Peter Montague
14 March 2012: The Collapsible Woman by Vanessa Veselka
21 March 2012: Casablanca!
04 April 2012: We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction by Ross Andersen
11 April 2012: Enter Totalitarian Democracy by Andrew McCarthy

2010-11 School Year

To see an archive of the topics we have discussed, click here.

07 September 2011: The Revolution of Capitalism
24 August 2011: Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? by John Tierney
17 August 2011: Saints Go Marching In by David Rieff
10 August 2011: Why The Gender Gap Won’t Go Away. Ever by Kay Hymowitz
02 August 2011: Threat Position by Jeffrey Herf
27 July 2011: Why We Should Protect Those Accused of Rape by Roy Black
20 July 2011: Two Decades of the Web: A Utopia No Longer by Evgeny Morozov
13 July 2010: Drugs and the Meaning of Life by Sam Harris
29 June 2011: Salvaging the American Dream by Michael Auslin (Bring your own ideas! It’s going to be a night of optimism, damn it!)
22 June 2011: Beyond Obama’s Assault on Free Speech by Mark Cantora
15 June 2011: Darkness Too Visible by Meghan Cox Gurdon
08 June 2011: One Week Off for Finals and Graduation, But meeting next week
01 June 2011: Austerity America by Alexander Linklater
25 May 2011: A Quibble by Mark Slouka
18 May 2011: Your So-Called Education by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
11 May 2011:My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death by Noam Chomsky and Killing Evil Doesn’t Make Us Evil by Maureen Dowd
04 May 2011: NO MEETING (WEEK OF DOOM)
27 April 2011: NO MEETING (WEEK OF DOOM)
20 April 2011: NO MEETING (WEEK OF DOOM)
13 April 2011: The Human Brain: Turning Our Minds to the Law by David Eagleman
06 April 2011: Bloodlust by Russell Jacoby
30 March 2011: Spring Break
23 March 2011: Morality is a Culturally Conditioned Response By Jesse Prinz
16 March 2011: The Power of Lonely by Leon Neyfakh
09 March 2011: The Myth of Adolescence Part 1 and Part 2
02 March 2011: American History Lessons by Melissa Harris-Perry
23 February 2011: James Madison and the Dilemmas of Democracy by Myron Magnet
09/16 February 2011: Mind Vs. Machine by Brian Christian
02 February 2011: Everyone’s A Critic Now by Neal Gabler
26 January 2011: The Price of Power by Robert Kagan
19 January 2011: FINALS WEEK (NO DISCUSSION)
12 January 2011: Holocaust Hegemony by Sam Schulman
05 January 2011: Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka
22 December 2010: The Crisis of the American Intellectual by Walter Russell Mead
15 December 2010: How the Oligarchs Took America by Andy Kroll
08 December 2010: Americans Don’t Hate the Rich by William Voegelli
01 December 2010: and In Defence of Wikileaks by The Economist
17 November 2010: Truth Lies Here by Michael Hirschon
10 November 2010: Animal Research: Groupthink in Both Camps by Lawrence Hansen
03 November 2010: Are We Failing Our Geniuses? by John Cloud
27 October 2010: D.I.Y. Foreign Aid Revolution by Nicholas Kristof and Don’t Try This Abroad by Dave Algoso
13 October 2010: Political Columnists Think America is in Decline. Big Surprise by David Bell
06 October 2010: From Diversity to Sustainability: How Campus Ideology Is Born by Peter Wood
29 September 2010: How to Ask Awkward Questions and Annoy People by Angus Kennedy
22 September 2010: Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay by Christina Hoff Summers
15 September 2010: The Internet Will Set You Free by Peter Singer and Beware the Internet…by Trevor Butterworth
08 September 2010: Prison without Walls by Graeme Wood

July 23, 2006/by dpogreba

Notes for Classical Foundations

The complete set of notes for the classical foundations unit is located in the class downloads section. Please consider printing only the material that is essential, as there are a lot of pages here.

July 22, 2006/by dpogreba