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 …
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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 …
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Why Abortion is Not a State’s Issue Debate is a skill that has been lost in America in recent generations. I like to think that in order to keep the peace and to be able to have the family over for Thanksgiving, fathers and uncles stopped arguing and decided to live by agreeing to disagree …
A little old man hobbles out of his house in a tizzy. His mailbox had just been knocked over by a child. The child, a thirty-something-year-old construction worker was just doing what he was told. “What’s the big idea?” screamed the senior in delirium. The young man just stood there, not sure how to respond …
When I read a fiction book, I either want to enjoy the writing style of the author, be interested by the story being told, or I want to get encouragement to go out and do something more with my life. I like to learn and escape into another world for a bit as long it …
A Desire Worth Dying for…Liberty for All As I am writing this, I am on a ferry on my way back to England after visiting France. It is July 3rd, 2023. In France, I, along with a couple dozen of my students, experienced some of the beaches of D-Day and the US Cemetery in Normandy. …
There is a reason that America is called the Great Experiment. It was founded at a time of great political and religious turmoil. The time of the 1500s-1800s was a time of revolts, secessions, and schisms. Countries, rulers, and churches were all coming and going. I’m welcomed to being fact checked, but as far as …
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Covid-19 and the year 2020 was a hard time for most people on many different levels. Society was shut down, for good or evil. Jobs lost. Drug and alcohol use skyrocketed. People were encouraged to turn on their brothers and sisters for merely going outside. It was a dark and lonely time for most of …
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or Why Educating Everyone is a Bad Idea I remember a time that my mother asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I think I was around 7th or 8thgrade. I was a kid. I had no idea. I told her that I didn’t know, but I did know that I would not …
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As a follow up from my previous post, there is a reality that what you believe is vital to how you live your life. What you do really does depend upon your doctrine. To push this all the way to the corners of your life, it is best to start with some definitions. Doctrine is …