Publisher: Slate Magazine

Author: Laurialan Reitzammer

This piece originally appeared on Zócalo Public Square. After Prince died, my Facebook news feed filled with mourning. My friends shared the time he sa ...

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Publisher: War on the Rocks

Author: James Lacey

Several years ago, as a new professor at the Marine Corps War College, I spent a huge amount of time putting together the best presentation on Thucydides a

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Publisher: The Spectator

Author: Peter Jones

Why does the Republican party loathe Donald Trump? Because Trump is the ultimate loose cannon, beholden to no one. And even worse, he is popular. What trumpery! Ancient Athenians would have loved him.

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Publisher: Aeon

Author: James Romm

To the ancient Greeks, Ocean – at once a monster and a god – was what the Big Bang is to cosmologists today.

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Publisher: Washington Post

Author: Elizabeth Markovits

It’s also not new – politicians have been doing it for ages. Literally.

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Publisher: The Independent

Author: Peter Popham

Climb into my time machine and come fly with me two years into the future. Here we are, November 2018, with celebrations of the centenary of the end of the First World War in full swing. And we find ourselves part of the grand coalition that has just declared war on China.

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Publisher: The Atlantic

Author: Eric Weiner

How did a tiny, dirty Greek city-state produce more brilliant minds than anywhere in the world before or since?

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Publisher: The Atlantic

Author: Christopher Oldstone-Moore

It was a battle strategy.

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Publisher: Aeon

Author: Josiah Ober

Wisdom from classical Greece: democracy and liberalism are both better off if we understand the difference between them

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Publisher: The New Criterion

Author: Christopher Childers

Published in the February 2016 issue of The New Criterion.

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