Shakespeare's Macbeth: Acts 1:1-2:2
In this lecture we discuss (a) the geo-politcal situation Macbeth begins with: the treason of Macdonwald; the alliance with Sueno and the Norweyans (Vikings), and the perfidious acts of the Thane of C...
13 Touko 201937min
Side Quests 049: Zelda: Majora's Mask 003
In this episode, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider the Mountain and Goron Villages. Therein we learn lessons about (a) birth and death and the cycle of life, (b) how death and dying and possibly even mal...
12 Touko 201947min
Conversations at The Leaky Cauldron 020: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Chs. 19-23
In this episode, Ms. Sarah Miller, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider (a) Tom Riddle's ability to manipulate and frame people, (b) the nature of horcruxes and Slughorn's role in their utilization by Volde...
9 Touko 20191h 1min
Virgil's Aeneid: Bk 4 Pt. 1
In this lecture, I discuss (a) Dido's heated passion and its relation to fire-imagery, (b) the connection between fire-imagery and rage and lust, and how the burning of Troy is in some way relating to...
8 Touko 201928min
Shakespeare's Macbeth: James I and Macbeth Act I.1-2
In this lecture, we consider (1) further theatrical conventions of Shakespeare's time, and the relationship between the current king (James I) and the construction and themes of Macbeth; (2) the sorro...
8 Touko 201937min
Virgil's Aeneid: Bk 3
In this lecture, we consider (a) Aeneas' journey from fallen Troy through Thrace, Delos, Crete, the Strophades, Buthrotum, and finally to Sicily/"Drepanum's Unhappy Coast"; (b) Aeneas' several attempt...
6 Touko 201922min
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Introduction to The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
In this introductory lecture to Shakespeare's "Mabeth", we consider (a) Shakespeare's birth, family, and death, (b) his time and place on the Elizabethan stage, and (c) his corpus of work and how it h...
6 Touko 201933min
Recurrent Events 009: Public Charter Schools vs. Traditional Public Schools
In recent days, following strikes in both Oakland and Los Angeles, teachers unions have demanded increasingly onerous restrictions be placed on California charter schools while also increasingly demon...
4 Touko 201946min
