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Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
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How long have I been doing this and only today learned that Goebbels had a doctorate in philology

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The terrorist in MN who murdered Melissa and Mark Hortman named his security company "Praetorian Guard Security Services." It's just a small piece of the picture, but when so many representations of ancient Rome idealize violence, a certain number of people are going to take that to heart

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Since 2008 I've taught a course on Classical Rhetoric and the Presidential Campaign. We always learn a ton, and we never just focused on speeches, but this article speaks to what has haunted me every time, that what we're looking at just doesn't matter

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

New hat from @archive.org for an age of censorship and erasure of history. Get yours at store.archive.org/internet-arc... They threw in a free sticker too!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Just came back from intl conference in Spain (European dictatorships/classics). Almost every European I met had studied in the US. Some at Ivies but many at middle-US public universities. And they will tell you they now work at prominent institutions in their home countries bc of that experience

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I haven't been writing about it as long as @eyesontheright.bsky.social but when I wrote about Greco-Roman antiquity and the white genocide conspiracy theory in 2019 it was still a pretty fringe idea, or so it seemed to me as a novice researcher 1/ pharos.vassarspaces.net/2019/03/29/c...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I use @archive.org all the time since they preserve many deplatformed white nationalist publications in which Greco-Roman antiquity is mentioned. I was just thinking I need a new hat. So make that 23 more in stock store.archive.org/internet-arc...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

"Majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperformed STEM fields when it comes to employment prospects, according to a recent analysis of labor market outcomes of college graduates by major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Many aspects of satire were developed in ancient Rome under autocratic emperors. Horace under Augustus, Persius under Nero, Juvenal under Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian. Doesn't matter if the autocrat is "good" or "bad," satire always has & still does thrive under despotism. Peak Daily Show was '00-'08

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I'll be speaking about my work on contemporary white nationalist classicism at this conference in Madrid on European Dictatorships & Classics next week. Excited to learn from historians of fascism about the background to what I'm studying in the 21st century marginaliaclassica.es/recepcion-cl...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

It's not only stupid and evil but it's also characteristic of the whole administration's ethos of finding ways to use their positions to enrich themselves no matter how stupidly or evilly

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I was looking for something public-facing on this topic for my most recent post for Pharos on Elon Musk's contempt for empathy. Now I have it (and have added a link to it)! 1/

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

It's nothing compared to Oliver's exposé but those interested in Greco-Roman antiquity might be interested that I wrote about the ADF at Pharos when they were using a Roman Empire comparison in their fundraising message. pharos.vassarspaces.net/2019/07/12/r...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

This is the grant funding the fellowship opportunity that has just put out its call for applications: www.racingtheclassics.com

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Was in NYC a few weeks ago and definitely noticed the difference

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Been looking forward to this!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Kind of feels like the main difference was the lack of a Classical reference in this one

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Darn we just read Pygmalion this last semester. Would have loved to have included this. Next time!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I wanted to know more about Dugin and Rome presto @rhigarthjones.bsky.social and @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social! Love Bsky. The other dimension I've observed is Dugin's engagement w/ Plato and ancient Greek political theory. Platonic anti-democratic thought is part of his anti-Western ideology

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

I'm putting slides together for a talk and one of them is about Pericles, who could reasonably be called an authoritarian democrat right there in the alleged birthplace of Democracy. A long history indeed! 1/

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

This is the part of @rhigarthjones.bsky.social 's new book I'm most looking forward to. There's a lot about Dugin out there but not enough about his interest in Greco-Roman antiquity

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