Politics The State of the Union is Tyrannical Okay, okay, let’s not make a big deal out of this or anything. So yes, Plato believed that democratic government Ancient Drunks and Winos By Ben Potter “Quick, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something Proving Cassandra Wrong You might not know this, but Greece has a new Prime Minister. Alexis Tsipras was sworn in this week as Theodora The Great: From Mistress to Monarch By Mary Naples One of the most influential and powerful empresses of late antiquity, Theodora’s (c 497-548) life reads like Deterministically Indeterminate (part 2) You might remember that last week we had something of a discussion regarding determinism, indeterminism, the predictions of Karl Marx, Cato: The Roman Ron Paul? By Ben Potter During his own era Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) was known as ‘Cato the Censor’, for his Deterministically Indeterminate “Marx was right!”, declares Bill Bonner’s Diary of a Rogue Economist. “Oh yeah?”, I wonder to myself. You certainly know The Epic Ennius By Ben Potter Today we shall get to grips with a character of epic proportions, one of the originators of The Pitiable Tyrant Do you remember a few weeks ago when we had a bit of a discussion on the Platonic dialogue, Gorgias? Carthage: Always the bridesmaid By Ben Potter What do Spain, Portugal, Malta, Gibraltar, Libya, Morocco, Italy and France have in common? Weather... perhaps. Food... « Previous 1 … 77 78 79 80 81 … 94 Next »
