Jaspreet Singh Boparai

Jaspreet Singh Boparai is one of the founding editors of Antigone Journal, a website for those who love ancient Greek, Latin and everything else about the classical world.

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An actor in Roman costume with a gold crown. He is a man in his 50s, blonde hair, blue eyes wearing purple and gold.

Savage Entertainment

A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

14 Nov 2024 · 30 min read

Sacha Guitry as Jean Lécuyer in Ils étaient neuf célibataires (1939), seated at a table, with a polka dot tie

A Filmmaker in Spite of Himself

Sacha Guitry disdained cinema as an art form, but with a slew of recent Blu-ray releases, his acidic comedies are finally receiving the attention they deserve.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

28 Aug 2024 · 22 min read

Mystic Without a Church

Werner Herzog’s new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

28 Mar 2024 · 17 min read

Hollywood Autocrat

A newly restored Blu-ray release of ‘Foolish Wives’ offers a welcome reintroduction to one of cinema’s most gifted and eccentric artists.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

13 Oct 2023 · 12 min read

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire—A Review

The city of Rome likely had a population of over a million by the time the Emperor Augustus died (August 19th, AD 14).

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

11 Apr 2020 · 17 min read

Why isn’t Jordan Peterson on This List of the World’s Top Fifty Intellectuals?

What is worse, it is in denial about how little power and influence it has outside of a few institutions, whose reputations suffer as they grow increasingly narrow-minded and mediocre.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

26 Jul 2019 · 18 min read

Sedentary Revolutionaries: Two Academics Who Joined the Nazi Party

No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

21 Jun 2019 · 20 min read

Michel Houellebecq: Prophet or Troll?

Houellebecq depicts a Europe where French culture is a bad joke.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

10 Apr 2019 · 14 min read

The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History

For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

10 Mar 2019 · 18 min read

Not All Dead White Men—A Review

How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence?

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

11 Dec 2018 · 23 min read