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Most People Are Other People
Why Shakespeare is great
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Caleb Ontiveros
5
September 2023
The Threatened Survival of Ancient Texts
Greek literature exists due to recurrent utility, not material preservation
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James Binks
7
August 2023
July 2023
Weaving Past, Present, and Future Together: Lessons from the Renaissance
Renaissance thinkers teach us how to value the past while creating a better future.
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David Fideler
1
June 2023
All Rebirths Grow From the Soil of the Past
Across history, civilizational renewal always takes root in the heritage of the classics
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Michael Bonner
4
May 2023
Dying With Dignity, Departing Without Memorial
A meditation on classical and modern views of death
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Caleb Ontiveros
2
April 2023
When Antiquity Trained the Future
History, culture, and the quest for practical wisdom
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Sebastian Garren
1
March 2023
Classics from the New World
Can and should non-Western philosophy be part of the canon?
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
1
February 2023
Stoics And Epicureans Have Returned. So Where Are the Cynics?
Why Cynicism is absent from the modern world, and how it might reemerge
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Andrew Perlot
January 2023
The Case Against Julius Caesar
Warlords are not great
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Caleb Ontiveros
4
December 2022
Histories of the Greater West
Imagining trees of culture to understand civilizations better
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
November 2022
The Meaning of Sacrifice
Signaling, scapegoating, and sovereignty
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Caleb Ontiveros
2
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