Wondering What To Do With Your Life?

If you would prefer to watch something than read if, you can find the video version of this here. We are a decent ways away from Reformation Day, but in my Omni V class, we are in full swing with some reformers. I assigned a discussion questions for my students and their families to talk about …

How do Cicero, Trump, and the French Revolution Fit Together?

If you would like to see this instead of read it, you may find the video here. Welcome to another episode of The Doctor’s In. Today, we are looking back in order to look ahead, which is the right way to view history. Mankind has a weird way of repeating itself, getting into similar cycles that …

We Are From The Government And Here To Help

Inspired by Thucydides. Excerpt from a lecture I gave last week: Recently, I have seen a lot of posts about what the government should or shouldn’t be doing. The question I want to consider today is what is the role of government? Being in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War, I figure it is a good place to start …

Glory in the Mundane

Achilles, King Arthur, Aragorn, Anakin. Heroes. Every young man’s dream. I grew up with a world in my head. These men swirled through it. I always wanted to be the hero, to swing a sword and save someone, anyone. I didn’t really care who. I just wanted to matter. The story that was my real …

Is Paideia Just a Fancy Word for Education?

There is something about old words that has been lost over time. Our society and language have been dumbed down to the point where things only have surface meaning. It is quite terrible. There are some great words that we have lost like arete for virtue and trouthe for truth. Arete and trouthe are both …