Lecture 1 (Sunday, Oct 16): What Are the Roots of Our Current Crisis?

   *  Crisis of Meaning and Its Causes: Loss of Forms
   *  Collapse of Consensus and Trust
   *  Breakdown of Education and the New Sciences
   *  Failure of the Elites and Need for New Leaders

Lecture 2 (Sunday, Oct 23): Navigating the Paradigm Shifts

   *  From Electric to Digital: Disinformation and Responsibility
   *  Digital Retrieves the Medieval/Scribal plus Religion
   *  How Has the New Digital Paradigm Changed Our Perceptions?
   *  The Five Paradigms: Oral, Scribal, Print, Scribal and Digital

Lecture 3 (Sunday, Nov 6):  Learning How to Think Anew

   *  The Trivium: Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectics
   *  Technology and the Tetrad of Marshall McLuhan
   *  Digital Great Books: Rediscovering Aristotle and Aquinas
   *  Training the Inner Senses for Action

Lecture 4 (Sunday, Nov 13): Three Spheres: East, West and Digital

   *  Three-Body Problem: No Closed-Form Solution
   *  The East: Chinese Revival of the Classics
   *  The West: Disarray and Confusion or Renaissance?
   *  The Digital Sphere and the Nature of the Human