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Michael Sugrue

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• ... that Michael Sugrue became an "internet phenomenon" during the COVID-19 pandemic for his lectures on YouTube covering "the last 3,000 years of Western intellectual history” recorded in 1992?

• Source: "Michael Sugrue, 66, Dies; His Talks on Philosophy Were a YouTube Hit

After an academic career spent in near obscurity, he became an internet phenomenon during the pandemic by uploading talks he had given three decades earlier.

The college lecturer, in a uniform of rumpled khakis and corduroy blazer, paces on a small stage, head down. “The lectures you’re about to see,” he says in introducing a series of talks, videotaped in somewhat hokey lo-fi style in 1992, “cover the last 3,000 years of Western intellectual history.""

NY Times

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Moved to mainspace by Thriley (talk), GuardianH (talk), and Etyuxdy (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 142 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 17:49, 10 September 2024 (UTC).