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Talk radio and American conservatism
What Limbaugh built, why it mattered to a movement, and what his critics, including conservative ones, have said about his methods and his legacy.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
A serious media-history course about a genuinely consequential figure. Students listen to primary audio, read transcripts, and read both admiring and hostile assessments, including criticism from within conservatism itself.
Students come away knowing what Limbaugh built, why it worked, and what his critics said about it.
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
AM radio, the Fairness Doctrine, and an industry looking for a format.
Week 2
Structure, monologue, callers, humor, the show analyzed as a made thing.
Week 3
Talk radio’s effect on conservative organization and on the Republican Party of the 1990s.
Week 4
Criticism of his rhetoric and methods, including from conservative writers, read directly.
Week 5
Podcasting, cable, and what the format became after him.
Week 6
Each student gives a five-minute assessment of Limbaugh’s legacy.
Audio & transcript packet
Odysseus Lyceum
Curated excerpts with full context, supplied at no cost.
Favorable toward the subject, honest about the criticism.
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
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.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
