54% of US adults (age 16-74) — roughly 130 million people — read below a 6th-grade level. Why is nobody talking about this? To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization. If the collapse in reading is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. Every 4-6 weeks, we read a new great work together: we've covered texts like Homer's Iliad, Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, and Don Quixote. We're about to start reading The Brothers Karamazov. We are reading the great works slowly, intentionally, and in dialogue with each other. If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group. Consider a paid subscription if you'd like to support — it makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. We are entirely funded by our members. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next Welcome!

We have voted to read The Brothers Karamazov next in the book club! Join our reading group if you want to study some of the greatest books ever written with us — in dialogue with each other. First discussion is on Augu 4, covering Books 1–4. It's going to be an incredible journey... 🙌

If schools and universities refuse to teach the great books of the West, we must do it ourselves. We started an independent group to study the greatest texts of the Western canon, together. ...and we are now 900 members strong! 🙌 We're about to start our 14th book: we've just voted to read "The Brothers Karamazov" next. If this is something you'd like to be a part of, join our reading group. You can simply read along with us and tune into the broadcasts, or join our smaller "inner circle" and be part of the discussions directly. Every session seems even better than the last at the moment. Thank you all for taking this so seriously, it's a pleasure to study alongside all of you. Become a paid member if you'd like to support — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next Welcome!