Roosevelt Montas: How the Great Books Speak to Everyone
ACTA's Michael Poliakoff delves into life-changing aspects of liberal arts education and study of the great books in conversation with Roosevelt Montas, the author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life, and Why They Matter for a New Generation. Montas\xa0is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University.\xa0He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018.\xa0He currently teaches Introduction to Contemporary Civiliation in the West, a year-long course on primary texts in moral and political thought, and is also Director of the Center for American Studies\u2019\xa0Freedom and Citizenship Program\xa0in collaboration with the\xa0Double Discovery Center. \xa0As you\u2019ll discover, Mr. Montas holds great reverence for the history, meaning, and future of liberal education.