Life, meaning, and death.
Continue reading “Chapter Nine: Enter Socrates and exit Sol.”
Chapter Nine: Enter Socrates and exit Sol.
What is worse is that Socrates proposed ridiculous ideas like the equality of women!
Chapter Eight. Lysistrada et al.
Thucydides is a great, but a serious reader should also try Donald Kagan’s four volume study of the war.
The war that never ends continues.
Using the blog for teaching and research.
I replied to the questions in a recording which is attached
I had an inquiry from a research centre on campus about the use of the blog for teaching and research.
Continue reading “Using the blog for teaching and research.”
A fashion parade, well not quite.
Forced to be free.
Over the years I have accumulated mementoes from students.
Chapter Seven. Melos.
The war that never ended took a turn for the worse at Melos.
Celebricracy
Celebricrats are famous for being famous, and nothing else. It is not about talent or achievement.
If the celebrities are leaders, who are their followers? And why?
Power 1997 – A special notice
SBS News turns a corner
Heretofore I preferred SBS news because it was crisp, moved fast to cover the ground in the time available so that there was no time for journalistic pontificating. I also thought there was a little more restraint in SBS News, and a little less advocacy than on the ABC.
Journalists have long since given up reporting facts and letting viewers and readers draw their own conclusions.
The Percles File
Warts and all.
Chapter Six: Thucydides and that war.
His debauchery was an open secret.
My essay “Cracking the Thucydides code” has appeared recently in the Antioch Review, a literary magazine of some note. It is the kind of publication many large libraries have.