Andy Matuschak reflects on U Chicago's four-year Great Books reading program
andy_matuschak · x · 2026-09-07
Researcher Andy Matuschak spotlights the University of Chicago's four-year "Great Books of the Western World" program: weekly 3-hour online discussion seminars with skilled facilitators and 12 peers; registration stays open a few more weeks. He recently completed it.
His candid reflection: he signed up with a checklist mentality—hoping one program would let him "check off" the unread classics—likening it to a first-time American tourist booking a whirlwind guided tour of Europe's must-see sites.
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