We’re talking about freedom this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and I demonstrate my freedom by going all the way from “guy with guitar” folk to overcranked contemporary R&B. On the way I’ll try to convince you that the concept of freedom is so nebulous as to be easily used by any politician […]| Front Porch Republic
In this year’s volume of the Journal of Hellenic Studies, Christopher Jones presents an argument – somewhat speculative, but not unpersuasive – that the historian Philip of Pergamon known only through the surviving inscription on the base of his statue at Epidaurus (Inscriptiones Graecae IV2.i 687), was identical with ‘Philip the historian’, one of the participants … Continue reading Philip of Pergamon: the common source of Plutarch and Tacitus?| Georgy Kantor's blog
Augustine passed on to us, and all posterity, prescient words of wisdom: that even in the most disconcerting and dark of times, beauty, compassion, truth, love, and happiness abound. When the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410, the city that had taken the world captive had fallen into captivity. The event was a transformative moment in [...]| The Imaginative Conservative
to describe or portray someone or something in very general terms, avoiding or neglecting the finer details—UK, 1808—alludes to a style of painting characterised by the use of broad brushstrokes…| word histories