Ep. 20: Interview With Doug Lensing

Combat and Classics Podcast

English - July 01, 2018 22:48 - 56 minutes - 48 MB - ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
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Previous Episode: Ep.19: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Next Episode: Ep. 21: Aristotle's Politics Bk. I, part 1

Douglas Lensing joins the show to talk about his path from the Navy to St. John's College and his paper "Passion and Mind: Homer's Formula for Victory in the Iliad."

Doug joined the Navy on a Naval Special Warfare contract, but after failing to complete BUD/S went to Defense Language Institute, learned Farsi and worked at Fort Gordon, Georgia as a linguist.

Doug will be starting his Ph.D. at Baylor University in Political Science in the fall of 2018.

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