Archive - This Has Happened Before

Words Had to Change Their Meanings

On an Echo of Thucydides in Three People Writing Today

Aug 24 •

Nicholas Thorne

2

Living Polemarchus

A Platonic Character and the Decline of Canadian Freedom

Aug 10 •

Nicholas Thorne

5

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July 2025

How Ideas Change In History

OR, How the Titanic Helps Us Understand Plato & Thucydides

Jul 27 •

Nicholas Thorne

5

2

This Has Happened Before

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

Jul 27 •

Nicholas Thorne

6

2

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