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Political Philosophy & Constitutional Thought
Charlottesville, Virginia · teaches in Eastern time, shown to you in Eastern
Alan spent fourteen years teaching political theory to undergraduates before concluding that the conversation he wanted to have works better with sixteen-year-olds, who have not yet learned to perform sophistication. He has taught Tocqueville nineteen times and says he is still finding new things in the second volume.
“I do not tell students what to conclude. I make them read the text, state the argument in their own words, and then face the strongest objection to it. A student who can do that has been educated. A student who has memorized my opinions has not.”
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
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
Great Books
Selected chapters · Ages 12–14
The same book, the same instructor, at a pace a twelve-year-old can genuinely sustain, about fifteen pages a week from selected chapters.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Western Civilization
Myths told properly · Ages 6–9
Odysseus, Theseus, Perseus, Atalanta. The stories that the whole of Western literature keeps quoting, told to children who are meeting them for the first time.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$36 in total
$14.40 for add’l siblings
Conservative Thought
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.
Dr. Alan HaleNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
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