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What does it really mean to be free—and what do we give up (if anything) to live together?

This summer, explore Rousseau and other great thinkers in a week of bold conversation, big questions, and fresh perspectives.

🧠 July 25 – Aug 1, 2026 | Chicago | Ages 16–24 | Great Connections Seminar

𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙩 www.reliancecollege.org/seminar.

🎓 College degrees are losing value. AI is replacing entry-level jobs. So what can actually prepare you for a future of constant change?

👉 Read how the liberal arts - and a Great Books education - could be the answer.

Adapting to AI: The Case for a Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Job Landscape - Reliance College The AI boom is eliminating jobs and exposing skill gaps—learn why liberal arts might be the smartest path to thrive in an unpredictable job market.

Each year at the Great Connections Summer Seminar, students ages 16-24 hail from places such as Argentina, Guatemala, Ecuador, and all directions of the U.S. One participant came because her sister loved it so much she returned three times! ❤️

At the end of the week, students testified that the program had not only significantly enriched their ability to think well and their knowledge, but also their understanding of what is going on in the world. And it had also buoyed their spirits!

They were especially impacted by their ability to speak their minds without fear of criticism, shunning, or reprisal.

They became great friends and allies in the quest for successful lives, grasping the great connections between reason and love. 🤝

We still have a few openings for the 2026 Great Connections Seminar: Reason and Love. Apply today at www.reliancecollege.org/seminar

In 2008, an unknown figure named Satoshi Nakamoto released a nine-page white paper that introduced Bitcoin - a peer-to-peer digital cash system. It wasn’t just a payment tool; it was the blueprint for a decentralized monetary network that could operate without banks or governments.

Bitcoin has since sparked a global movement, created a trillion-dollar industry, and challenged the foundations of modern finance. But what kind of mind could imagine such a thing?

At Reliance College, we believe the answer points to the liberal arts at their best: not abstract theory, but a framework for understanding - and changing - the world.

Satoshi’s design wasn’t born of one specialty. It required:

👉 Cryptography to secure transactions

👉 Computer science to coordinate a decentralized network

👉 Economics to understand money and inflation

👉 Game theory to align incentives without coercion

👉 Political philosophy to imagine money beyond state control

👉 Mathematics to model risk and probability

👉 Software engineering to make it all run in the real world

Bitcoin, in other words, is a liberal-arts achievement disguised as code.

At Reliance, we train students the same way: to grasp complex systems, ask fundamental questions, and connect ideas across domains.

Read Plato or Hayek, and you’re learning about justice, value, and order.

Study mathematics, and you sharpen the rigor Satoshi used. Engage in collaborative problem-solving, and you practice the reasoning his protocol encoded.

Satoshi didn’t just write code - he made a moral statement about trust and human coordination. He was a systems thinker. That’s exactly what a true liberal-arts education produces.

Whether or not you become the next Nakamoto, you’ll live in a world shaped by people like him. To understand it - or reshape it - you need more than technical training. You need the intellectual range of the liberal arts.

That’s what we offer at Reliance College.

Because the world doesn’t need more rule-followers.

It needs more builders.

💡 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 “𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹”?

Think again.

According to the New York Federal Reserve, graduates in Philosophy are currently facing 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 than those in:

✅ Computer Science
✅ Business Management
✅ Chemistry
✅ Public Policy
✅ And even Economics.

At Reliance College, we ground students in the Great Books and collaborative Socratic inquiry—not to escape the real world, but to master it.

Our students learn how to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems—the exact skills top employers are desperate for.

🎓 In a rapidly changing economy, deep thinkers have the edge.

👉 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿—a powerful, three-day immersion in reasoning, dialogue, and self-discovery in downtown Chicago, IL!

🔗 www.reliancecollege.org/seminar