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Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book. Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts. This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one. To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization — if the schools and universities won't teach the great books, we must form reading groups to study them ourselves. Every month, we read a new great work. We've covered texts like Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote. We're now reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We must study the ideas upon which the West was built if we are to preserve it. It takes effort to read these texts, and even more to read them well. Thats what we're doing, slowly, in dialogue with each other. If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group and consider a paid subscription. It makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project. We are entirely funded by our members. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next athenaeumbooks.com/welcome Welcome!

“I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.” — Thomas Sowell

Slayer rehearsing “Raining Blood” in a garage next to a cemetery in 1986. Even the address was on brand.

🇯🇵Japan🤝Nederland🇳🇱 Deze Japanse fan heeft, tussen de Oranjefans, de tijd van z’n leven😂👏 #japan #nederland

A sea of orange approaches Dallas Stadium ahead of today's Netherlands vs. Japan World Cup match. ⚽ Live Updates: bit.ly/4utLNwp

Pero el palo con el teléfono no se le olvidó. Perdóneme que no me den lástima estas cosas.

Me gusta.

This is a baby Japanese macaque from Nagano, Japan

Oranje zee! Naar links, naar rechts 🎺📯🎺📯

Stephen King snorted so much cocaine during the 1980s that he had to stuff cotton balls up his nose to keep blood from dripping onto his typewriter. His cocaine addiction got so bad that he barely remembers writing some of his own books, and said his heart would race at 130 beats per minute while he worked late into the night.

Netherlands fans have taken over Dallas

Visitar la ciudad es ver gente fea. Fos, de pana.

Wist je dat? Moslims bidden niet op straat in Iran, Saoedi-Arabië of andere moslimlanden—het is illegaal en onbeleefd, omdat het anderen stoort. Ze doen het alleen in landen die ze veroveren, als een dominantie-strategie.

one of my favourite Rhododendron photos of this year. And it's shot with my Mavic 4 drone. The sunstar is quite crazy.

Remember before HDMI cables where you had to match the colors to the TV like you were diffusing a bomb

Pero si te regalan joyas tasadas en millón y pico, entonces no

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients