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This very exciting episode on liberal education with Professor Roosevelt Mont\\xe1s makes a come back this week!

In this episode, I am joined by Professor Roosevelt Mont\\xe1s to discuss his new book,\\xa0Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed my Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.\\xa0Mont\\xe1s, a Dominican-born American academic, makes the compelling case that study of the Great Books is potentially transformative, especially for students from working-class communities or who are members of historically marginalized communities. Mont\\xe1s further argues that the future of the Humanities in this country does not lay primarily in specialized research but in undergraduate education\\u2013particularly in general undergrad education. We talk about arguments that Great Books courses are racist, sexist, or otherwise somehow oppressive, and why we think they are dead wrong.\\u2028

This episode is especially close to my heart and I hope you enjoy our conversation.\\u2028

Roosevelt Mont\\xe1s is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University.\\xa0 He holds an A.B. (1995), an M.A. (1996), and a Ph.D. (2004) in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.\\xa0 He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018.\\xa0 Roosevelt specializes in Antebellum American literature and culture, with a particular interest in American citizenship.\\xa0 His dissertation,\\xa0Rethinking America: Abolitionism and the Antebellum Transformation of the Discourse of National Identity, won Columbia University\\u2019s 2004 Bancroft Award.\\xa0 In 2000, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student.\\xa0 Roosevelt teaches\\xa0\\u201cIntroduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West,\\u201d\\xa0a year-long course on primary texts in moral and political thought, as well as seminars in American Studies including \\u201cFreedom and Citizenship in the United States.\\u201d He is Director of the Center for American Studies\\u2019\\xa0Freedom and Citizenship Program\\xa0in collaboration with the\\xa0Double Discovery Center.\\xa0 He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is the author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation\\xa0 (Princeton University Press, 2021). You can follow him on Twitter\\xa0@rooseveltmontas

Jennifer Frey is the inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. Through Spring of 2023, she served as\\xa0Associate Professor of Philosophy at\\xa0the University of South Carolina and as a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. She also\\xa0previously served as a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an affiliated faculty in the philosophy department. Frey holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh\\xa0and a B.A. from Indiana University-Bloomington. She has published widely on action, virtue, practical reason, and meta-ethics, and has recently co-edited an interdisciplinary volume,\\xa0Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology\\xa0(Routledge, 2018). You can follow her on Twitter\\xa0@jennfrey.

Sacred and Profane Love\\xa0is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.