Porch Dialogues: Reading the Great Books
By Porch Dialogues
Categories: Society & Culture, Philosophy, History
Two friends on a porch read the Great Books of Western civilization chapter by chapter, starting with Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Unscripted conversation about history, philosophy, and big questions, for curious listeners (whether or not they’ve done the reading). porchdialogues.substack.com
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