CLAS-101 Howard University Dr. Norman Sandridge (normansandridge@gmail.com) Office Hours TTH: 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. and by appointment Office: Locke Hall 264. I’m also available during office hours on Gmail chat and Google hangout. Required Texts: All texts will be linked online (see the course schedule). …

It occurs to me that I have likely enjoyed most — or even all — of the forms of happiness I ever will. Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Genera of Happiness Discussed Gardening. The Long Run. Teaching. Finishing a Book. Witty Sex. “A Meet and Happy Conversation.” Forming, Maintaining, and Re-establishing Friendships. Singing and Playing the Guitar (over and…

My friend and colleague, Mallory Monaco Caterine, asked me to develop a manifesto on leadership study and training, to serve as concluding remarks for the first annual online conference on “Teaching Leaders and Leadership through Classics,” which she was the wonderful program director of. …

Freedom: You’ve got to give for what you take (inspired by the fact that I just finished watching *Keanu*) From 1993–2005 I accumulated a student loan debt of approximately $25K, which covered tuition and living expenses at three different state universities in fairly low cost-of-living areas (Alabama-Huntsville, Florida State, and…

Ever since I read Joan Williams’ article in the HBR on “What So Many People Don’t Get about the U.S. Working Class,” about why the white working class voted for Donald Trump, I have been bothered by her explanation of how the white working class supposedly admires rich people but…

Monday, May 28, 2018 Tyranny Wasn’t Always “Bad” I am convinced that there is no host in the world today who is both knowledgeable about fine things and more sovereign in power, whom we shall adorn with the glorious folds of song. — the Theban poet Pindar referring to Hieron, Tyrant of Syracuse, in…

The following remarks were delivered at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC on September 8, 2016 as part of a panel on a series of questions about the future of the liberal arts education: “Are liberal arts and classics still relevant? Can small colleges survive? How about same-sex colleges? Are…

Here’s to the collaborators, the artists, and the idealists: Sunoikisis, a national consortium of Classics programs, is excited to announce that the online platform for its Fall 2016 course on leadership in the ancient world is now live and open to the public. …

This afternoon my wife and I took our daughter strawberry picking at a farm in rural Maryland. Because I’m a professor on summer break and my wife runs her business from home, we have the luxury of going on a weekday when it is otherwise uncommon to see two parents…