It's the time of the year when we feature some of the smart conversations that occur around the country through the Eisenhower Series College Program. This episode features Christiana Crawford, Jody Daigle, and Amanda Raney as they examine the complex relationship between the United States and China. They joined podcast editor Ron Granieri to share their different yet complementary perspectives. Christiana emphasized the military's goal is to build strength to preserve peace , Jody drew paral...| War Room - U.S. Army War College
The grand tour continues. Hello Warszawa! Sorry, Wrocław! Is it time for Thucydides on atheism, or the lessons of history, or powerlessness, or something else entirely? Partly because I talk more happily from notes than reading a prepared text – not least because non-anglophones apparently enjoy listening to my old-fashioned BBC English regardless of whether […]| Sphinx
Thucydides of course anticipated the dynamics of social media.* On the one hand, there is the democratisation of opinion, with every Athenian citizen having not just a right but a duty to contribut…| Sphinx
You can’t spend a lot of time thinking about the modern reception of Thucydides without engaging with his place in Professional Military Education in the United States, which is plausibly responsib…| Sphinx
Thucydides may not be a wholly uncelebrated author, but it is rare that his name occurs in contexts outside politics and history – let alone in poetry or song; and so one of the rarer but not…| Sphinx
As the apeirokinetic pantoustasis rolls ever onward, it is increasingly clear that this must be the darkest timeline.* It is at any rate the stupidest. Reason, analysis and theory have little purch…| Sphinx
It’s a sign of the rapid expansion of Bluesky that it now looks as if it’s worth my while searching for ‘Thucydides’ every now and then, in order to wonder whether I should trouble to correct misqu…| Sphinx
…with my little eye, something that looks rather like generative AI. It’s been quite a while since the last new ‘Thucydides’ quote on Ex-Twitter (where @Thucydiocy remains active, though my p…| Sphinx
It’s a clear sign of the parlous state of the British economy that even the Prime Minister cannot afford an umbrella. Either that, or yesterday’s announcement was somehow intended to communicate th…| Sphinx
