This Has Happened Before

Intermission: Sophocles on Active and Passive

An Ancient Vision of Principles at the Heart of Political Life

Nov 16, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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Thucydides, Trump and the Nature of Power

How the Melian Dialogue Might Give the Current Administration Cause for Concern

Nov 2, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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October 2025

Liberation Even From Reality

On an Uncomfortable Parallel with the World of Thucydides

Oct 19, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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Mary Harrington and Satan

Pre-Christian Reflections on a Modern Predicament

Oct 5, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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September 2025

Callicles and Dr. Frost

How a Contemporary View That Seems to Arise From Modern Science First Appeared in Antiquity

Sep 21, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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Of Lyons and of Lewis

How Warnings of a New Evil in the 20th Century Were Anticipated in Antiquity

Sep 7, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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August 2025

Words Had to Change Their Meanings

On an Echo of Thucydides in Three People Writing Today

Aug 24, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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Living Polemarchus

A Platonic Character and the Decline of Canadian Freedom

Aug 10, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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July 2025

How Ideas Change In History

OR, How the Titanic Helps Us Understand Plato & Thucydides

Jul 27, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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This Has Happened Before

A First Look at How Plato and Thucydides Provide Perspective on the Contemporary West

Jul 27, 2025 • Nicholas Thorne

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