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A founding subject

Conservative Thought

Burke, Kirk, Hayek, Friedman, Sowell, Buckley and the arguments they were making, studied as intellectual history, with their critics in the room.

  • Intellectual history
  • Natural law & ordered liberty
  • Federalism
  • Religious liberty
  • Thinkers & their critics
  • Contemporary conservatism

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    Conservative Thought

    Conservative Thought I

    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.

    Ages
    Ages 14–18
    Meetings
    7 live meetings
    Days
    Tuesdays
    Time
    6:00 pm ET · 60 min2 other times
    Alan HaleDr. Alan Hale

    New this term

    Reviews appear once families have taken it.

    $10/wk

    $70 in total

    $28 for add’l siblings

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    Conservative Thought

    Ben Shapiro 101

    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.

    Ages
    Ages 15–18
    Meetings
    6 live meetings
    Days
    Wednesdays
    Time
    4:00 pm ET · 60 min1 other time
    Alan HaleDr. Alan Hale

    New this term

    Reviews appear once families have taken it.

    $8/wk

    $48 in total

    $19.20 for add’l siblings

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    Conservative Thought

    Charlie Kirk 101

    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.

    Ages
    Ages 15–18
    Meetings
    6 live meetings
    Days
    Tuesdays
    Time
    5:00 pm ET · 60 min1 other time
    Alan HaleDr. Alan Hale

    New this term

    Reviews appear once families have taken it.

    $8/wk

    $48 in total

    $19.20 for add’l siblings

  • Multi-week courseJoin any week

    Conservative Thought

    Rush Limbaugh 101

    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.

    Ages
    Ages 15–18
    Meetings
    6 live meetings
    Days
    Tuesdays
    Time
    4:00 pm ET · 60 min1 other time
    Alan HaleDr. Alan Hale

    New this term

    Reviews appear once families have taken it.

    $8/wk

    $48 in total

    $19.20 for add’l siblings

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    Dr. Alan Hale

    Political Philosophy & Constitutional Thought

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