Audio Lectures for the Holidays

Just a quick update that I recently finished listening to the Teaching Company lecture entitled The Foundations of Western Civilization for the second time. Taught by Notre Dame's Professor Thomas Noble, one of my favorite lecturers, the course again provided me with a terrific topline overview of a long stretch of Western history, from ancient Sumer to the discovery of the New World. Forty-eight lectures, each 30 minutes in length, may sound like a lot of time, but not when you're covering such a wide, important, swath of history.

In Professor Noble's typical humor, he points out that the course is something like riding on a motor scooter through Louvre.

With that finished, I've just purchased three new courses. I'm three lectures into Economics (3rd Edition), which will be followed by Classical Mythology and Augustine: Philosopher & Saint.