Overview of the Lyceum Institute's Latin Course offerings for 2026—from introductions to intermediate readings in Scholastic Latin!

Announcement of our Winter 2026 Greek Course, reading Plato's Apology—can we discover the depths of Plato's thinking in the original language?

In 2026, the Lyceum Institute will offer the first three of six courses in our core Trivium curriculum, providing an entryway into a truly “liberal” education: Art of Grammar I: Foundations Art of Logic I: Basics of Argumentation Art of Rhetoric I: Discovery of Arguments We are also aiming to introduce regular occasions throughout the year for practicing dialectical disputation and rhetorical presentation, though plans for this are still taking shape.

John Boyer joins Brian Kemple to discuss the decline of traditional liberal education and its impact on university curricula, emphasizing the superficial engagement with important questions in contemporary society, particularly through social media. In place of these superficial approaches, we ought to recover the Aristotelian understanding of causality, developing habits of real inquiry, and discovery of enduring truths. 00:00…

A Philosophical Happy Hour on gratitude and the repayment of gifts—that is, the satisfaction of debts for the gratuitously-given—through the insight of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Announcement of our Winter 2026 Greek Course, reading Plato's Apology—can we discover the depths of Plato's thinking in the original language? Description This course is designed primarily to help participants improve their ability to read and translate sophisticated Greek writings with accuracy and confidence. Additionally, participants are: i) introduced to the philosophical vocabulary and more advanced grammatical constructions of Attic Greek; ii) guided in the art of literary interpretation, especially in interpreting the stylistic features of Plato’s early dialogues; and iii) encouraged to contemplate the philosophy of Socrates as well as Athenian perspectives on citizenship, education, democracy, and law.

A Philosophical Happy Hour on gratitude and the repayment of gifts—that is, the satisfaction of debts for the gratuitously-given—through the insight of St. Thomas Aquinas. The virtue of gratitude, St. Thomas Aquinas tells us, “always inclines, insofar as possible, to pay back something greater” than one has received. In a world of diminished personal bonds, this perhaps seems... difficult. Ours is a very transactional society.

A polemic on why the lukewarm “center” cannot hold. There is an episode of the sitcom Parks and Recreation featuring a cult that named themselves “the Reasonabilists”.[1]  The cult worships “Zorp, the giant lizard god who will destroy the earth with his cleansing fire of judgment.”  When asked why the cultists call themselves “the Reasonabilists”, Amy Poehler’s character answers, “Well, they figure if people criticize them, it’ll seem like they’re attacking something very reasonable.”  As Adam Scott’s character remarks, “that’s weirdly brilliant”; if one may package their beliefs in the right way, it almost does not matter how absurd, ridiculous, or antithetical to reason they are—especially if they can be made to seem reasonable, or even as though those beliefs are the grounds of reason itself.

Dr. Brian Kemple of the Lyceum Institute joins Anthony Alberino for a discussion on digital technology and its relation to the human soul. Together they reflect philosophically on: the way to resist the malformation of the human soul in the digital age the nature of technology the way in which technology psychologically attunes and structures us the prevalence of conspiratorial thinking in the digital environment…

In this conversation, Dr. Jacob Joseph Andrews discusses his journey into the intellectual life, emphasizing the importance of personal development, moral formation, and the role of classical education. He highlights the significance of language study, particularly Latin, in understanding culture and fostering intellectual habits. Andrews also reflects on the value of specialized study and the necessity of cultivating intellectual habits across different educational environments.

A Philosophical Happy Hour on Jacques Ellul’s “Meditation on Inutility”, challenging us to think about the uselessness of human action. For this week’s Philosophical Happy Hour, we will take up a specific short text to read and discuss: the postscript to Jacques Ellul’s Politics of God and Politics of Man, titled “a meditation on inutility”.  You may find this…

In addition to our reprints, the Lyceum Institute also publishes original works intended to continue and advance the intellectual inheritance of the tradition. These works will grow to comprise a wide range of studies, with focus on the trivium, philosophy, and more.