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Join alum Shilo Brooks (Annapolis Class of 2006) for a conversation on liberal education, democracy, and his experience reading and teaching Great Books. Shilo Brooks is President and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the host of the podcast “Old School,” and Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science at SMU. He was previously Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, where he taught in the Department of Politics. Watch the recording.

Featuring leading international, national, and local alumni voices from literature, journalism, law, public ethics, and the arts including a National Book Award winner, a former ESPN sports journalist, a renowned bioethicist, and the executive director of Creative Santa Fe.
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The St. John’s College Alumni Association held its annual awards reception for the first time in Santa Fe, honoring distinguished alumni from both campuses whose work reflects the enduring value of a St. John’s education. Awardees included NPR’s chief international editor, a leading environmental lawyer, and the founder of South Korea’s Great Books Center.

Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. He is the author of We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite (Princeton University Press, 2024). Al-Gharbi is a columnist for The Guardian and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications. Watch the recording.