An online seminar on Making the Cartel, taught by Emilio Porras Vergara, meeting Mondays, 6:30 PM—9:30 PM ET, October 5–November 2, 2026. $300 tuition, sliding-scale seats available.

An online seminar on Audre Lorde: Poetry, Feminism, Mythography, taught by Rebekah Smith, meeting Sundays, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET, November 1–22, 2026. $300 tuition, sliding-scale seats available.

An online seminar on Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet, taught by Isabel Sobral Campos, meeting Sundays, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET, September 13–October 4, 2026. $300 tuition.

A boundary is a real or imagined line demarcating space – something quite useful in geometry, and in many aspects of the human world; in cognitive science, t…

In our present time of quickly accelerating technological, economic, and social change paired with powerful government repression of revolutionary ideas and …

Three years before Nietzsche’s madman screamed that God is dead, Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov had argued that if there were a God he deserved condemnation, th…

Fascism has fascinated and appalled observers since its emergence from the catastrophe of the First World War, remaining a malign symbol of the 20th century’…

Sabeen Ahmed is an interdisciplinary scholar, cultural theorist, and visual artist whose work bridges social and political philosophy, critical aesthetics, a…

Are democracy and imperialism compatible? What kind of leaders succeed in a democracy during wartime? How do states make decisions? The purpose of this class…

Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.

Theodor Adorno is often thought of as an aloof aesthete, an inscrutable ivory-tower theorist, and a political pessimist. This course seeks to challenge these

The Odyssey is among the oldest works of literature in the Western tradition. Composed during the Archaic period of ancient Greece, it tells the fantastic stories of the hero Odysseus on his decade-long journey home across the Mediterranean after the fall of Troy, which include his adventures with the gods, man-eating giants and beguiling witches, … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://brookfarminstitute.com/seminars/the-odyssey/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "After Troy: The Odyssey"</span></a></p>

Often described as the quintessential poetry collection of modernity, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains an intriguing, even shocking record of the new subjective experience of life in the modern metropolis, a world of fractured beliefs and unstable grand narratives. Baudelaire’s poetic persona descends into the streets and looks head-on into the … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://brookfarminstitute.com/seminars/baudelaire-writer-of-modern-life/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Death, Desire, and the City: Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil"</span></a></p>

Often described as the quintessential poetry collection of modernity, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains an intriguing, even shocking record of the new subjective experience of life in th...