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Argument, media, and contemporary conservatism
His intellectual influences, his arguments, his media career, his strengths, his critics, and his place in the conservatism of the last decade.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
Students study a working public intellectual the way they would study any other: sources, claims, method, reception. The course pays particular attention to the difference between winning an exchange and being right, and uses recorded debates as rhetorical texts.
Every meeting of this class stands on its own. Nothing in week six assumes week five, so a student can join in the middle, take the four weeks that fit around a busy month, and stop when they want to. There is no catching up to do, because there is nothing to be behind on.
That is also why there is no grade here and no such thing as an incomplete. The record keeps what actually happened: the meetings attended live and the recordings watched. A student who came to three meetings has a record of three meetings, not a failure.
Week 1
Religious and philosophical sources, and the tradition he places himself in.
Week 2
Two representative positions reconstructed formally, premises exposed.
Week 3
Speed, framing, and definition, analyzed as rhetoric, with the risks named.
Week 4
Substantive criticism from left and right, read in the original.
Week 5
The business of independent conservative media.
Week 6
Students conduct a moderated exchange under the format’s constraints and then critique it.
Transcript & clip packet
Odysseus Lyceum
Supplied at no cost with sources cited.
Neither promotional nor dismissive. Students are required to distinguish claims, arguments, evidence, and opinion in every source, including the sympathetic ones.
Read our academic philosophyMeetings are recorded and released to enrolled families for fourteen days. Recordings capture the instructor and shared materials; student video is not published.
Full refund up to seven days before the first meeting; inside seven days, everything paid is credited to your Lyceum balance. No refunds or credits once the class has begun. Cancel any section from your parent account.
These describe how this instructor has been trained, reviewed with educators and accessibility specialists. They are not a diagnosis and not a marketing claim.
Students and parents review separately, on different questions, and the two aggregates are never blended. Every review is verified and moderated.
No parent reviews for this class yet.
Reviews from students are published as “Student, age 13”, never with a full name. Photo and short video reviews are supported and moderated before they appear.
Conservative Thought
Burke to Kirk
The first course in the Lyceum’s core sequence: what conservatism has actually claimed, from Burke’s Reflections to Kirk’s canon, critics included.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$10/wk
$70 in total
$28 for add’l siblings
Great Books
The year-long seminar · Ages 15–18
A full year inside Tocqueville: both volumes, forty pages a week, discussed live every Tuesday with twelve other students.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Conservative Thought
Campus argument and the young right
The folding table, the microphone, and the queue of students waiting to disagree. What Kirk built on American campuses, why the format spread, and what it is good and bad at.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
