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That Fine-Sounding Language October 03, 2023
By the middle of the eighteenth century, it was possible to find introductory, digested accounts of more or less any area of intellectual life, including classical languages and literature—forms of knowledge once thought synonymous with being a forma...
AI “Girlfriends”: Male Emancipation at Last? February 06, 2023
I can see how someone with this mindset might perceive an ‘AI girlfriend’ as genuinely emancipatory for men - on the basis that it liberates men from their ancient vulnerability to sexual desire for women, and all the chaos this can produce. I’m not ...
On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923) February 06, 2023
One hundred years ago, as a diversion from writing her novel Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) set about describing her complex, intimate relationship with Ancient Greek. Her essay would be published two years later in the collection The Commo...
Losing Homer February 02, 2023
In 2011 Harvard Professor of English and noted historicist critic Stephen Greenblatt published The Swerve. In this fascinating, if somewhat derivative work, Greenblatt chronicles how the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini rescued the De Rerum Natura...
Classic Books or Diverse Books? July 21, 2021
St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians is among the earliest documents in the collection of texts that we call the New Testament. It’s an ill-tempered letter in which Paul rebukes a rival faction of early Christians who sought to keep the movement within...
Five Best Books on WASPs July 09, 2021
1. After the Civil War, when a group of well-born white Anglo-Saxon Protestants—WASPs—sought to get the better of Gilded Age plutocrats who were beating them in the game of power, one of the instruments of their revenge was the New England prep schoo...
