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All Rebirths Grow From the Soil of the Past
Across history, civilizational renewal always takes root in the heritage of the classics
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Michael Bonner
4
May 2023
Dying With Dignity, Departing Without Memorial
A meditation on classical and modern views of death
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Caleb Ontiveros
2
April 2023
When Antiquity Trained the Future
History, culture, and the quest for practical wisdom
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Sebastian Garren
1
March 2023
Classics from the New World
Can and should non-Western philosophy be part of the canon?
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
1
February 2023
Stoics And Epicureans Have Returned. So Where Are the Cynics?
Why Cynicism is absent from the modern world, and how it might reemerge
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Andrew Perlot
January 2023
The Case Against Julius Caesar
Warlords are not great
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Caleb Ontiveros
4
December 2022
Histories of the Greater West
Imagining trees of culture to understand civilizations better
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
November 2022
The Meaning of Sacrifice
Signaling, scapegoating, and sovereignty
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Caleb Ontiveros
2
September 2022
Imagine That Carthage Had Won
Are our values the product of small accidents of fate?
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
8
The Best of Classical Futurism, Year I
A retrospective on AUC MMDCCLXXIV–MMDCCLXXV
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Sachin Maini
, 
Caleb Ontiveros
, and 
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
August 2022
Classical Transhumanism
The promises and perils of the posthuman world revealed through myth
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Caleb Ontiveros
7
The Most Nuanced Take You Will Ever Read About Sparta (and North Korea)
How I went from disliking Sparta, to hating it, to not knowing what to think anymore, to disliking it but for better reasons
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
3
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