A collection of 136 posts
We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction.
Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution.
Knitting, which helps lower the blood pressure and keep the mind busy, has enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in recent years.
My small classes faced a large photograph of Barack Obama displayed proudly in front of the classroom over the title “Notre Président.”
Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates of human violence. His current work examines how ideology affects scholarship. Follow him on Twitter @cjprofman. Thirteen years in the making,
Complaint sometimes reflects an honest desire to be able to ask the unaskable, speak the unspeakable, and ponder the imponderable.
The available scientific and statistical evidence (not to mention common sense) weighs strongly against belief in bodily resurrection from the dead.
The issue was that when a white playwright’s work was produced, casting directors were assuming that they should cast white actors. We were all aghast.
Pride and shame are two sides of the same coin; so if collective pride makes sense, then collective shame makes sense too
As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Unintended and painful irony of recent feminism’s preoccupation with overcoming male oppression has been to place men at the centre of female identity.
Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.
For a time, this urban menagerie dictated my new sense of who I wanted to be. I didn’t ask questions. It was too dazzling to stain with doubts.
Peter Harrison took exception to his “teleological view of history” and “misplaced faith in data, metrics and statistical analysis.”
In the 20th century, this behavior gained popularity amongst the middle class. It became “Keeping up with the Joneses.”