This lecture comes from the past. It was delivered first in 1998. I am revisiting and revising it now as I conclude my three-decade-plus career at St. John’s College and reflect on what the College has meant for me and what I hope it might mean for future generations of Johnnies.  One of the events that interests us at the college especially is the advent of “modernity,”  the moment when the focus of Western European thought turned very deliberately away from its own obsession with the past and embraced novelty.

Lecture is at 4:15 p.m. MT. Also live streamed - details below.