Everyone has heard the story of little George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree with his hatchet. In this episode, Rhonda takes a deep dive into this story, exploring what its simpllicity reveals about the virtues of honesty, courage, prudence, and...parenting.

We don’t hear people refer to prudence very muchnowadays, but the virtue of prudence is needed perhaps more now than ever.Using examples from The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Odyssey,Rhonda provides an overview of the virtue of prudence and its relationship totruth, and then begins consideration of the component virtues that contributeto the exercise of prudence.

The trailer provides a quick overview of The Virtue Signal.

Virtue is something that people don’t seem to talk about much anymore. Many students never learn about it in schools, and yet virtue was the main goal of education from ancient times up into the 20th century. In this episode, McDaniel looks into the relationship between virtue and freedom and provides her rationale for the show.

We commonly use the phrase “virtue signaling” to refer to an outward gesture of “virtue” that is meant to win approval from an audience as opposed to an act arising out of authentic personal integrity. In Episode 1: The Pursuit of Happiness, host Rhonda McDaniel takes a close look at what was meant by the phrase “pursuit of happiness” and its connection to virtue for citizens in a self-governing society.