The Occidental Tourist

Passport To

Your entry point to a deeper understanding of our Western literary heritage. Includes study guides to accompany the Great Books and Mortimer Adler's 10-Year Reading Plan.

🛂 Passport to... Pascal's Pensées

In which Blaise Pascal, the brilliant 17th century polymath, grapples with faith, reason, and losing oneself in the cosmos.

Jul 9, 2025 • A.D. Hunt

Study Guide for Pascal's Pensées

Based on Mortimer Adler's approach to analytical reading.

Jul 9, 2025 • A.D. Hunt

🛂Passport to Milton's "Areopagitica"

Was John Milton a defender of free speech or Oliver Cromwell's censor?

Jun 10, 2025 • A.D. Hunt

Outline of Milton's Areopagitica

This outline accompanies my essay of the same work and was produced with the assistance of my “Ask Adler” GPT.

Jun 9, 2025 • A.D. Hunt

🛂Passport To...Shakespeare's Macbeth

"Blood will have blood": The tragedy of ambition and tyranny.

May 13, 2025 • A.D. Hunt

☯ Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of Reality

Symbolism Masterclass #2: How Symbolism manifests at every level of reality.

May 5, 2025 • A.D. Hunt

Thomas Hobbes and the Birth of Political Realism

A Study Guide to Hobbes’ Leviathan, Part I: “Of Man”

Apr 7, 2025 • A.D. Hunt