<p>Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal is the finest specimen of the age of satire and wit that succeeds that of Milton's age</p>

Paideia Today, Season Three, Episode Seven, Samuel Johnson

Paideia Today is a podcast in which Dr. Scott Masson and Dr. Bill Friesen, professors of English, discuss the great works of western literature. We do so from a now largely lost classical perspective, attempting to illustrate why 2800 years of the greatest thinkers valued these works above all others as keys to understanding the human condition.