225. Suspending Words

Within David Runciman’s rapidly swirling, but nonetheless breezy, work of political science, How Democracy Ends is an ethical anxiety, and … More

177. (William Shakespeare)

A second in a series of what seem a “redundant discoveries of obvious value,” this post can claim nothing novel about Shakespeare’s … More

Reading Livy in English translation is a compromised experience, no doubt, but the exhaustion from even the first few books … More

These days especially, everyone ought to know the closing paragraphs of the opening essay, “Faces of History in the Historia … More