Rush Limbaugh, the Great Books, and Logic in Action
One of my favorite things about Rush Limbaugh is that he doesn’t take himself too seriously, and pokes fun at those who do…while speaking to current events.
18th Century Virginia Musings
Tag: Great Books
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Autobiography
One of the books my son and I read for our rhetoric 20th century studies was the autobiography, Clarence Thomas: My Grandfather’s Son.
Napoleon of the West organizes Progressive Dinner 1900-1920
Christy Huddleston, a teacher in the Smokey Mountains, Isabella Hagnar, first White House social secretary, and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI Flying Ace.
1495 Venetian Gown restyled for College: Sewing Journal
My daughter asked me for a costume for her presentation of art, literature, history Renaissance class, that called for creativity. We improved my Venetian gown.
Rhetoric Literature: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Colossus
From abandoned war machines the people of Rhodes built a statue 110 feet high on a fifty-foot pedestal in the harbor entrance to represent liberty.
Rhetoric Literature Study: Shakespeare, did he or didn’t he?
Not understanding the rigors of classical education, critics argue that Shakespeare did not write the plays, because he only had a grammar school education.
Machiavelli’s misunderstood treatise of The Prince
Reading this book in context of history, I don’t agree with the commentaries that I read about The Prince, accosting Machiavelli for his evil, ruthless spirit.
Shipwrecked with Odysseus: IEW Rescues the Arguable Thesis
Although most writing curriculum say to write astrong arguable thesis, I’ve only found IEW to define and clearly explain how to do it.
Celebrating dialectic classical history studies completion
After changing from our costumes, we gathered for an interview of the impact four years of dialectic classical history study had brought to us.
Classical Education: Freedom, Virtue, Great Conversation
My mom had always complained that I wasn’t reading real books in school…which became obvious in college. My classmates discussed book I only heard of.
