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—Plato's 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.

• "The Single Book Course," Matt Dinan
• "Write in Your Books! (or: How to Read a Philosophical Text)," Joshua Hochschild
• Great Books Program at St. Thomas University