Extra Muros
Bruce Ivar GudmundssonExtra Muros explores ways people "outside the walls" of our dying universities can pursue a liberal education.
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They're Back
The Three Musketeers have returned from their little holiday … tanned, rested, and ready to host the online meetings of the Decision Game Club.
On Saturday, 16 May 2026, they will begin a series of decision games, both imagined and histori...
Retire Your Red Pen
There's a much better way to help another improve his writing
Every once in a while, I will fill an idle moment by looking up the publications of a person who, in days of yore, covered something that I wrote with comments and corrections....
More That's Old, Less That's New
The content of books
Authors follow trails blazed by others. If honest, they confess their debts to these pioneers. If false, they claim that the ideas they took from others emerged from their lonesome little brains like Athena from the he...
A Short Break
The first two Saturdays in May - 2 May 2026 and 9 May 2026 - will find the Musketeers of the Decision Game Club on vacation. Thus, there will be no meetings on those days.
Regular meetings will resume on Saturday, 16 May 2026.
The followi...
The Novelty of Problems
With this essay, I begin a series of ‘discourses’ that build upon points made by Wallace Brett Donham in his Education for Responsible Living. As you might expect, both the title of this project and the approach that I take with the compone...
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I write 'The Tactical Notebook' (about the armies that are, were, and might have been) and 'Extra Muros' (about ways to get a liberal education 'beyond the walls' of our dying universities.)
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