{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Matt Dinan on the Single Book Course","description":"Matt Dinan is a professor at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick and director of its Great Books program. In a recent essay, he recounted what happened, for his students and for himself, when he chose to spend a semester reading a single book\u2014Plato\u2019s Republic. He joins Brendan Boyle to reflect on that experience. Their conversation ranges from considering scenes and images in the Republic, to the idea of wholeness in liberal arts education, to how reading Plato influences administrative decisions, and much more.  \u201cThe Single Book Course,\u201d Matt Dinan \u201cWrite in Your Books! (or: How to Read a Philosophical Text),\u201d Joshua Hochschild Great Books Program at St. Thomas University  ","author_name":"Books and a Balance","author_url":"http:\/\/sjc.edu","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/25575762\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/25575762"}