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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
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Nicholas Thorne
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October 2025
Liberation Even From Reality
On an Uncomfortable Parallel with the World of Thucydides
Oct 19
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Nicholas Thorne
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Mary Harrington and Satan
Pre-Christian Reflections on a Modern Predicament
Oct 5
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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
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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
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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
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Nicholas Thorne
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Living Polemarchus
A Platonic Character and the Decline of Canadian Freedom
Aug 10
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Nicholas Thorne
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July 2025
How Ideas Change In History
OR, How the Titanic Helps Us Understand Plato & Thucydides
Jul 27
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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
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Nicholas Thorne
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