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Q&A with General Spiese
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Q&A with General Spiese

Why did you choose this path, knowing that you would have to sacrifice years of your life to service for your country? My dad had fought in World War Two in Korea, and my uncle also served. I’m a baby boomer, not unlike how Victor David Hanson describes growing up, observing his dad and all...

QUICK HITS:  Bradley Birzer  A weekly rapid-fire interview
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QUICK HITS: Bradley Birzer A weekly rapid-fire interview

Where did you attend college? Notre Dame for undergrad. Indiana University for graduate school. How did you propose to your wife? I wrote out 95 reasons why she should marry me and posted them on the cathedral door in Helena, Montana because she was Lutheran. I took her there at about 20 minutes to midnight...

Bring back the original Oath of Hippocrates
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Bring back the original Oath of Hippocrates

A few weeks ago, a pre-med student and friend of mine mentioned her discovery that medical students today rarely take an oath of doing no harm. Intrigued, it only took a few minutes of Googling to come across the evolutionary history of the medical oath. Sifting through the many versions of the Hippocratic Oath, I...