Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
Sandra Kotta
· 19 min read
History
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Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb — Arguments from the Classical Tradition
The Culture Wars and Beyond is an exemplary study: thorough, balanced, judicious, elegantly written, and all the better for its notably even tone and scrupulous sense of fairness.
Sandra Kotta
· 20 min read
A Hundred Years of Communism
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Review: Inglorious Empire — British India by Shashi Tharoor
All the European powers combined didn’t manage to kill that many people throughout all Asia during their entire colonial histories.
Sumantra Maitra
· 11 min read
The Troubles and The Terror
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 min read
Review: The New Philistines
Those already familiar with the deformations that these terms represent may take note of the supercilious attitude that permeates the turgid passages in which they appear.
Matthew Stewart
· 6 min read
Totalitarianism Rising
As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion.
Gregory Gorelik
· 5 min read
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Created Political Gridlock in the US
From an evolutionary perspective the current domestic political crisis can thus be understood as an aftershock of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bill von Hippel
· 5 min read
The Truth About Propaganda
The term propaganda has its origins in the 17th century efforts of the Catholic Church to propagate its views and stem the rise of Protestantism.
Noam Shpancer
· 9 min read
How Will History Remember Obama?
Mostly, however, it was just disappointment. In both race relations and foreign relations, Obama unleashed forces, either deliberately or carelessly, which were beyond his control.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Cut Out the "Literally Hitler" Hysteria
Human societies, generally are conservative, and they prefer primarily two things, order and rule of law in society, and the perceived safety of one’s own tribe.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
The Restart of History and the Russia Question
There should be no misunderstanding that Russia is an adversarial great power.
Sumantra Maitra
· 10 min read
Reappraising Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations'
The biggest threat to human civilisation is not from some random weirdos blowing themselves up. The biggest threat is neither solely cultural or economic, but a hybrid of the two.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
The Real Problem with Renaming Buildings on Campus: Logistics
Let’s face it: there is no logical, consistent way to approach renaming of buildings — especially when the protestors, themselves, are opposed to logical discourse.
Eva Glasrud
· 4 min read
The Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Making of the Modern Middle East
The agreement provided a general understanding of British and French spheres of influence in the Middle East. The goal was to divide between them the Ottoman Empire’s Arab provinces (not including the Arabian Peninsula).
Aaron W Hughes
· 4 min read