Events for August 8, 2025 - November 7, 2023

Fall Preview Day (Virtual)

On October 23, Gutenberg will open its "virtual" doors to high school students and transfer students who are considering Gutenberg’s bachelor’s degree program in liberal arts. On Preview Day, you will meet tutors who have devoted their lives to learning and helping others learn, discuss works by the greatest thinkers the world has ever [...]

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A Common Fear: Current Perspectives on Tyranny from the Left and Right

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On January 13, Chris Swanson will give the first talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." Two notable books about tyranny have been published recently: On Tyranny (2017) by Timothy Snyder and Live Not By Lies (2020) by Rod Dreher. Both books were on the best seller lists, with On Tyranny hitting the [...]

Winter Preview Day (Virtual)

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On January 15, Gutenberg will open its "virtual" doors to high school students and transfer students who are considering Gutenberg’s bachelor’s degree program in liberal arts. On Preview Day, you will meet tutors who have devoted their lives to learning and helping others learn, discuss works by the greatest thinkers the world has ever [...]

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Tyranny in Greek Thought: Plato and Aristotle

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On January 13, Naomi Rinehold will give the second talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." Western political thought has roots in ancient Greece, notably in the ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Both categorize different kinds of government and consider their attributes and failings. Both include tyranny among the [...]

Just Powers: Locke on Legitimate Government

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On February 10, Gil Greco will give the third talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." John Locke wrote his Two Treatises on Government to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688. While his first treatise argues against the "Divine Right of Kings," his second treatise argues that legitimate government must meet [...]

Tyranny in the Mind of the Founding Fathers of America

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On February 24, Charley Dewberry will give the fourth talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." During the revolutionary period of the 1770s, the focus of the Founding Fathers was on the “tyranny of the monarch.” By the 1780s, they were still concerned with tyranny but now the focus [...]

The Ecumenical State: Re-reading Rousseau

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On March 10, Gil Greco will give the fifth talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often portrayed as the darling of the French Revolution. Many of Rousseau's ideas have had problematic implications for our day. Nevertheless, Gil Greco thinks that the standard interpretation of The Social [...]

“Oppressors in Their Turn”: The French Revolution and the English Romantics

Online Zoom Oregon (PST)

On March 31, Chris Alderman will give the sixth talk in the series "The Gutenberg Dialogues: An In-depth Look at Tyranny." Chris Alderman is a tutor at Gutenberg College, where he teaches writing, Greek, and German. Chris has self-published two collections of poetry, Poems in Verse and Ephemerides.   Registration is required to attend this class. [...]

Spring Preview Day (Virtual)

On April 7, Gutenberg will open its "virtual" doors to high school students and transfer students who are considering Gutenberg’s bachelor’s degree program in liberal arts. On Preview Day, you will meet tutors who have devoted their lives to learning and helping others learn, discuss works by the greatest thinkers the world has ever [...]

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