Blogs about: Thucydides
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Tacitus Now
4/18/2009 His power of mind is not like that of Thucydides, it is not really political and certainly not military. It is, on a grand scale, psychological. We are irresistibly reminded of Proust when T… more →
Several, Four, Many
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Theo wrote 1 week ago: We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we s … more →
A World Without Nuclear Weapons’: Prologue for a Mistaken Strategic Nuclear Policy
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alertindia wrote 1 week ago: What sort of national security policy can we expect from a president who seeks a “world free of nucl … more →
Grafton on Kagen's Thucydides
Abelard wrote 1 month ago: Anthony Grafton has written a review of Donald Kagen’s upcoming critical study Thucydides: The … more →
Unipolar Moment and The Obama Era
Priya Gaur wrote 1 month ago: Noam Chomsky Text of lecture given at Nezahualcóyotl Hall, National Autonomous University of Mexico … more →
Morley on Thucydides
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Abelard wrote 1 month ago: Dr. Neville Morley of the University of Bristol, author of the excellent book Antiquity and Modernit … more →
American Uses Peloponnesian War to Prove Unwinnable War in Afghanistan
kotzabasis wrote 1 month ago: By Con George-Kotzabasis I fail to see how my “syntax and phraseology” relates to your argument and … more →
Answering a nagging need to blog
youngandfoolish wrote 1 month ago: Excuse the brevity — I’ve got “real work” to do and have already wasted enou … more →
A Toast For Peace: Violence and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
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Roi Ben-Yehuda wrote 2 months ago: My latest from Haaretz. A couple of weeks ago, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced his intention to p … more →
No Fall of Man: Quotes from August
solidgoldcreativity wrote 2 months ago: From Peter Hartcher in The Sydney Morning Herald à propos Malcolm Turnbull: The ancient Greek histor … more →
The rape of Melos: Thucydides as great thinker
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andreaskluth wrote 2 months ago: One of the most important dialogues in all of literature, all of history and all of political philos … more →
Honorable Mention
severalfourmany wrote 3 months ago: Wed Aug 12 10:36:06 2009 One of the main themes of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wa … more →
Plato: Myth and Logic
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Daniel Fincke wrote 3 months ago: New on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, an interesting article on Plato’s attempt to m … more →
Hair
ecko4inc wrote 3 months ago: I went to the Melbourne International film festival last night and saw a great – uh – “d … more →
Pistol At the Ready, The Realist Stands There With His Chambers Empty
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josephfouche wrote 4 months ago: The Supreme Realist and the Supreme Idealist Pure foreign policy realism, especially in an American … more →
Comprehensive Bibliography of Military History
josephfouche wrote 4 months ago: I’m in the process of listening to a series of lectures made by the Foreign Policy Research In … more →
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
jefdun wrote 10 months ago: Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta “a possession fo … more →
On time, part one: two speeches
Alamanach wrote 11 months ago: The granite of Mt. Rushmore gives in to the forces of erosion at a rate of one inch every 10,000 yea … more →
Remember Me?!
singingmush wrote 1 year ago: Currently November 19, 2008 10:54 pm Feeling: Bored Craving: Thanksgiving Break Hearing: Trains outs … more →
Proud faith in democracy
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stoa wrote 1 year ago: In these last weeks a sudden and unexpected wave of optimism, proud patriotism and faith in the powe … more →
