Friday, 24 February 2017

'Populist' versus Academic Obscurantists

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"Open the Lyceum Doors to the Public Now" Obscurantism was the theme of a lecture I gave at Northwestern University near Chi...
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Sunday, 19 February 2017

On Receiving an Honour at Athens

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After a winter beset by flu and medieval problems which I’ll divulge in due course, I ran away to Athens. Despite the obvious increase in ...
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Sunday, 5 February 2017

Xenophon, Hallucinogens & the Hydra

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Having gone down with flu the weekend Trump was inaugurated, I've just emerged from twelve days when I thought that the news reports p...
Saturday, 21 January 2017

Crowd Help Needed to Visualise Campaign for People's Classics

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Dr Holmes-Henderson Wonderful news arrived yesterday at exactly the right time to dispel gloom.  I've been awarded a Leadership Fe...
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Sunday, 15 January 2017

Spartacus' Morphing Politics in Dark Times

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The weather is always appropriately dank and bitter on 15th January,  the anniversary of the brutal 1919 murders, by the far-right pr...
Thursday, 5 January 2017

Can the Left Appreciate Literature? A Reply to the Alt-Right of Classics

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J. Duban I’ve never been asked by a reputable journal to review such a bad book as Jeffrey Duban’s The Lesbian Lyre . Duban is an embi...
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Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Frogs v. Absolute Monarchs at Versailles

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Yesterday, thanks to my French-resident big sister Nicky Nicholson, I came face-to-face with the class war in France. On a trip to Versa...