I love this podcast where one of my favorite commentators, Ben Shapiro, calls out the reliance upon an elite expert class. Shapiro is always so wise and witty.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0lkPW2R35RUv1EDpCvAZbi?si=93CL-7P2TASClr0E2AciKA
When I left my full time legal career to stay at home with my first baby which turned into five babies over the next 7 years, I began a once a month event in my home that I called a little about a LOT. The purpose of these little social hours coupled with a brief seminar was to draw upon the “experts” from various fields in my life to share a snippet of information with my attendees so that we could learn a little about a lot of different subjects. The subject matters covered estate planning (my area of “expertise” at the time), hiring, vacation planning, financial planning, among others.
Dennis Prager, another favorite commentator, began Prager U to condense topics into 5 minute videos on various topics from history to the economy to male-female relationships.
I also love Hillsdale College which provides both its Imprimus newsletter and catalogue of online classes which mirror real college courses and are given by college professors, completely free of charge. https://www.hillsdale.edu/
All of these are examples of how we can become what I think our Founding Fathers were, Renaissance people apprised on a wide variety of topics. They were lawyers, doctors, ministers, farmers, merchants or other businessmen. What they were not was career politicians.
We have become so narrow and specialized in our modern world. Specialization has its place but we do not want to become boring, only being conversation isn’t in one topic or set of ideas. (You can tell these people because they speak in acronyms whether their listener understands or not, so surrounded are they by others from their small field.)
Notes From Real Life 