In this conversation with Michael Boler, we learn about his intellectual journey as a “late bloomer,” the dynamics and pitfalls of a great books approach to education, and the joys and challenges of teaching students in our own age.  Along the way we consider the virtues of intellectual humility, wonder, and the importance of the perennial questions.  And in an age in which higher education has become captive to values foreign to it, we consider why an apparently inefficient approach to learning might have the most permanent consequences.

Honors Program, the University of Saint Thomas

Michael Boler, An Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach

Michael Boler, “Screwtape’s Remedy for Love: C.S. Lewis and Ovid.”

Michael Boler, with Felisa V. Reynolds, “Aristotle and Zazie.”

Michael Boler, “The Violence of Autonomy: The Significance of Matthew 11:12 in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away”