Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Ricketts, founder of Ricketts Great Books College and owner of the Chicago Cubs, shakes hands with New College of Florida ...

Shortly after I moved to New York at the age of 19, a friend bought a set of the Great Books of the Western World, published by the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a wonderful set. The concept was to ...

The most immediate source of controversy in any Great Books course is its name, which inevitably prompts the question: What makes a great book? And more importantly, who? This was the first question ...

John J. Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. John J. Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. John J. Miller is joined by Peter Meilaender of Houghton University to discuss The ...