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Watch our conversation with Roosevelt Montás, Senior Lecturer at Columbia University’s Center for American Studies and Director of its Freedom and Citizenship Program, and Noah Chafets, Cyril O. Houle Chair of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago Graham School.

This discussion examined the value of a liberal education and how rigorous engagement with Great Books can transform lives. Montás also shared his personal journey of life-changing encounters with authors such as Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi in his book Rescuing Socrates.

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