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Ep. 71 | Jennifer Frey - The Virtue of Reading Classic Literature

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Jennifer Frey


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94.24


Uploaded to YouTube

17 March 2026

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22 March 2026


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“When you read Shakespeare,” Justice Antonin Scalia’s high school English teacher thundered, “Shakespeare’s not on trial, you are.”

What are we to do about college students purportedly incapable of reading, much less finishing, great novels? We are to double down and put in front of them what Matthew Arnold called, “the best which has been thought and said.”

Join Professor Jennifer Frey and Dr. Tod Worner on “The Evangelization & Culture Podcast” as they discuss the virtue and necessity of reading classic literature and encouraging its meaningful consumption among the young.

You can get more content like this in the quarterly print journal of the Word on Fire Institute, “Evangelization & Culture.”

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