Remembering the Other Greeks
For much of Western history, “Ancient Greece” has been associated with three cultural phenomena (at the least within popular consciousness). The first is the world of “Greek…
For much of Western history, “Ancient Greece” has been associated with three cultural phenomena (at the least within popular consciousness). The first is the world of “Greek…
“It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.” Much of the recent revival in humanist education (both K-12 as well…
One of the most infuriating things about the current history wars is the proclamation that history is “about facts.” Anyone trained in history, especially historiography, knows that…
Americans have long had a love-hate relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte. Thomas Jefferson famously praised Napoleon for giving Louisiana to the United States, while condemning the Corsican general-turned-emperor…
When the name Nero is heard, a few things are conjured up in our imagination. Nero the persecutor of Christians; Nero the brutal tyrant who embodied the…
To read Jan Patocka, the tragically understudied Czech philosopher, one needs to peel back the accretion of post-Cold War rhetoric to fully understand him. Patocka sees modern…
Matthew Boulter. Repetition and Mythos: Ratzinger's Bonaventure and the Meaning of History. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022. History, as popularly conceived, is the collection of “facts”…
In May 2017, a group of European conservative scholars and intellectuals met in Paris. They were brought together by their common concern about the state of European…
Aviva Zornberg has written another of her inspired books about the Bible, this one suggestively titled, The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis. Why read the Bible? …
Guy MacLean Rogers. For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews Against Romans, 66–74 CE. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. The Jewish War…
Donald Bloxham. Why History?: A History, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020 & History and Morality, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. The identical date that…
Michael J. Colebrook. The Recurrence of the End Times. Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. The past decade hasn’t been kind to…
Every person has been nourished by particular linguistic and cultural traditions, shaped by living in definite locales, and feels most at home in a specific social milieu…
It’s hard to compare previous eras to this present one – which is always “the best of times and the worst of times.” That said, there are…
Roderick Beaton. The Greeks: A Global History. New York: Basic Books, 2021. The Greeks started it all. Or at least part of it all. Greece occupies…