Excited to start another year of teaching Wistory and Wistoriography

Hobbes spent his last years reading Homer, too, after pulling down the strongholds of the Church (allegedly). Homer must not, to use a barbarism, work ex opere operato.

Kinlaw Homer good. Plato good.

Among Shakespeare’s many amazing depths is the way in which his plays can be understood as a history of the English people beginning with Homer’s Greeks These two commentaries are excellent in helping to see how Shakespeare achieves that goal

Never be a Chorizo

Well which other church was supposed to hire him?

lol I haven’t heard Doug be accused of Straussianism before

☦️ Natty4Theotokos Joe Rigney There’s probably only one Straussian at New Saint Andrews College and it isn’t Douglas Wilson

I thought he was discalced. Or is that why his shoes aren’t with his feet?

Crazy to promote an institution named after such an unrepentant CN as John Knox!! "Seeing that the office and duty of the godly magistrate is not only to purge the church of God from all superstition, and to set it at liberty from bondage of tyrants; but also to provide, to the

Prots with their own apocrypha—the Book of Maps and Table of Weights and Measures

Why stop at conception? Regularly reassess whether your children are worthy of life—until someone decides *you* aren’t! What if someone could have stopped you…but chose not to?

Go further: nations themselves are not possible, of course. How can there be Christian nations and blue suits when there are neither nations nor blues nor suits nor Christianities? How can anything be predicated of anything else? <<Ta onta>> are not of this world either. "For

Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle — very anti-traditional

Same but mine’s all Herodotus

Herodotus’ proem, Homer’s shield, and Schliemann’s trench make for a good first week of ‘History and Historiography’ New Saint Andrews College

Predicting the past is the real trick