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June 6, 2025
Thanks to Estella Achinko, a 2025 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post.
Alfred Lansing’s Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage is a masterfully crafted narrative that chronicles one of the most extraordinary survival stories in the annals of exploration. Originally published in 1959, the book recounts the ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition led by the indomitable Sir Ernest Shackleton. Lansing, an American journalist, skillfully reconstructs this harrowing saga through meticulous research,
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October 21, 2016
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog.
Leadership has been on nearly everyone’s mind as of late. Unfortunately, it is not a Great Idea in the Great Books canon. However, there are many categories that touch upon ideas of leadership, such as Government, Man, Constitution, and Virtue and Vice. There is very little agreement about what makes a good leader. In fact, the only point of nearly universal agreement among Great Books authors is that some sort of government is necessary for the life of a state.