To think is to be free

RALSTON COLLEGE

A revival and reinvention of the traditional university. A fellowship for anyone, anywhere, who seeks the truth with courage.

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Whether you engage with us online, in person at events around the world, or as a student in Savannah, Ralston College holds a space for courageous curiosity and productive disagreement, where ideas are shared with the purpose of living more fully and renewing a shared human culture.

Encounter the richest and most challenging works of art and intellect from an uncensored past. Exercise free and independent thinking to answer the challenges of our own time and culture. Question openly, in a community dedicated to freedom of thought and speech: to seeking truth, no matter where it leads, and in fellowship with others.

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lit quote.

SHORT COURSES

HUMANITIES

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Ralston College offers short courses, available to anyone anywhere in the world, in partnership with the global online learning platform FutureLearn. We believe the treasures of art and intellect are an inheritance for everyone.

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Humanities

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Our first degree will be a one-year Master of Arts in the Humanities. Designed for those who seek an intensive graduate program focussed on fundamental questions, this demanding course offers a deep understanding of the present cultural moment through the artistic, literary, and philosophical record of its ancient, medieval, and modern origins.

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Podcast Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites

Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites

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Podcast Marwa Al-Sabouni: Architecture as a Matter of Life or Death

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Podcast Alexander Stoddart: Culture as Communion with the Dead

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Podcast On Becoming Alan Dershowitz

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Article Remaking Higher Ed: Looking Forward Requires Looking Back

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Article The Innovation Upside of the Covid Pandemic

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Article Colleges are Failing in their Fundamental Mission, but There’s Still Hope

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Ralston College's first online course is now available! Explore the humane realism of Samuel Johnson in a deep dive into his only novel with Theodore Dalrymple as your guide. Sign up here.

January 24th 2022

The Sinfonia No. 1 of George Walker, the late composer and Visitor of the College, will be performed alongside Beethoven's First and Fifth Symphonies by the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC. Details here.

January 4th 2022

Dr Arif Ahmed, MBE, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has accepted an appointment as Fellow of the College. His first course will be on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

November 12th 2021

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Ralston College's first online course is now available! Explore the humane realism of Samuel Johnson in a deep dive into his only novel with Theodore Dalrymple as your guide. Sign up here.

January 24th 2022

January 4th 2022

Dr Arif Ahmed, MBE, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, has accepted an appointment as Fellow of the College. His first course will be on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

November 12th 2021

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Stephen Blackwood

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Visitor

Jordan Peterson

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Stephen Wolfram

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Chief Legal Advisor

Sonal Tolman

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Heather Mac Donald

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In Memoriam

George Walker

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