Summary
Dr. Sugrue was a classics professor who gained popularity during the pandemic due to foresight to upload all of his old lectures.1 He also seemed a bit unique in that he refused to publish a book, and focused his career on lecturing.
I didn’t discover him until recently (2024). Apparently the general consensus is his old lectures are worth listening to but he went down what I’ll refer to as the “political brainworm” path before his death, and to generally avoid his latter videos (or at least watch with that framework of mind).2
Footnotes
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Michael Sugrue, 66, Dies; His Talks on Philosophy Were a YouTube Hit ↩
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Is Michael Sugrue reliable? : askphilosophy - A commentator in this thread instead uses the term “Catholic angst over the downfall of western civilization” which is probably apt. ↩