The Occidental Tourist

Educating the Heart: A Brief History of the Moral Imagination

How an 18th-century lament over the trashing of tradition became a cornerstone of forming the next generation.

Sep 19 • 

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August 2025

Come Study With Me 📚

Join me this semester as I explore Harry Potter, medieval allegory, and children's fantasy literature.

Aug 29 • 

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My René Girard Summer 📚🏖

The Illusion of Desire and the Birth of the Modern Novel

Aug 20 • 

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July 2025

🛂 Passport to... Pascal's Pensées

In which Blaise Pascal, the brilliant 17th century polymath, grapples with faith, reason, and losing oneself in the cosmos.

Jul 9 • 

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Study Guide for Pascal's Pensées

Based on Mortimer Adler's approach to analytical reading.

Jul 9 • 

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June 2025

Cædmon's Hymn and the Birth of English Sacred Poetry

Plus: the need to recover a Christian critical tradition.

Jun 20 • 

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🛂Passport to Milton's "Areopagitica"

Was John Milton a defender of free speech or Oliver Cromwell's censor?

Jun 10 • 

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Outline of Milton's Areopagitica

This outline accompanies my essay of the same work and was produced with the assistance of my “Ask Adler” GPT.

Jun 9 • 

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May 2025

🛂Passport To...Shakespeare's Macbeth

"Blood will have blood": The tragedy of ambition and tyranny.

May 13 • 

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🧳Welcome, Fellow Pilgrim

Begin your literary odyssey with Dante here.

May 7 • 

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☯ Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of Reality

Symbolism Masterclass #2: How Symbolism manifests at every level of reality.

May 5 • 

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April 2025

How Meaning Structures the World

Jonathan Pageau's Symbolism Masterclass - Lecture 1

Apr 28 • 

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