living in the past
In later posts I’ll strive for a substantive engagement with Ruskin, but I want to make a general preliminary...
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rewriting ancient history
This fascinating article by David Graeber and David Wengrow challenges a strongly established historical...
historical knowledge and world citizenship
Few writers have meant as much to me, as consistently, over many years as Loren Eiseley — I say a bit about my...
morphosis
Here’s a passage from my review of Adam Roberts’s edition of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria: As the culmination...
the Roman world and ours, continued
To pick up where I left off last time: Imagine that you are a historian in the far future: say, a hundred thousand...
synopsis of Cochrane’s Christianity and Classical Culture
Augustus, by uniting virtue and fortune in himself (viii, 174), established “the final triumph of creative...
a clarification
A quick note: in response to my previous post several people have emailed or tweeted to recommend Jacques Ellul or...
the technological history of modernity
I’m going to try to piece a few things together here, so hang on for the ride — I have been reading and enjoying...
ideas and their consequences
I want to spend some time here expanding on a point I made in my previous post, because I think it’s relevant to...
imagining Thomas More (or not)
The good folks over at First Things are unhappy with the treatment of Thomas More in Wolf Hall, the TV series based on...