CCA II: The Great Reset?

In 2020, members of the world’s elite met at the World Economic Forum and launched the Great Reset initiative to transform the world economy. Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive director of the Forum, wrote, “Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must […]

CCA III: The Inklings

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien wrote some of the twentieth century’s most beloved works of literature, including robust defenses of the Christian faith. Together with Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and others, Lewis and Tolkien were members of an informal professor-student literary group at Oxford in the 1930s and 40s known as the Inklings. This third […]

CCA IV: Film Noir

Film noir (“dark cinema”) is defined by a distinctive visual style, edgy themes, violent plots, and bleak urban settings. The classical period of film noir spanned the 1940s and ’50s, although its influence remains strong even today. This fourth and final CCA of the 2021-2022 academic year will consider the history and elements of film […]

CCA III: Classical Greece and Rome

Since the founding of the first universities in the West in the eleventh century, the study of ancient Greece and Rome has been a central element of a liberal arts education. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, spurred largely by the influence of historicism, the serious study of the classics began to decline. Today it […]

CCA IV: Big Pharma

The modern pharmaceutical industry has in many ways proved itself a great benefit to mankind, making health- and life-saving drugs and vaccines widely available. But its reputation has come under attack in the wake of America’s opioid epidemic and the COVID pandemic. This fourth and final CCA of the 2022-23 academic year will consider the […]

CCA II: Great Economists

This second CCA of the 2023-2024 academic year, co-sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series, will examine this debate by exploring the lives and ideas of some of history’s most influential economists.

CCA III: Art of Biography

Lytton Strachey referred to the art of biography as “the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing,” adding that “it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.” This third CCA of the 2023-2024 academic year will consider biography in general and specific recent biographies through the eyes of their authors.

CCA IV: The American Musical

The heyday of the American musical began in the late 1920s and lasted into the 1960s. The music that came out of Broadway and Hollywood during that period represents one of the pinnacles of American popular culture. This fourth and final CCA of the 2023-2024 academic year will consider the history and character of the […]