π Fun chat, @LeeSmithDC expected it would be narrowly on Thucydides –
but I expanded the theme to discuss Covid, tyranny, Hannah Arendt and how we tell ourselves “this” story.
Thanks @wtm_leesmith
πΏπ₯€ Please watch & lemme know your thoughtsπ€
Browsing Category Books
RIP Michael Sugrue: Improvisation on Thucydides
π RIP Michael Sugrue (1957- 2024).
This is a masterpiece lecture AND a heck of a book review:
“Improvisation on Thucydides”
Be Thucydides
βοΈ Thucydides wrote about history’s first revolution. Can you tell the story of its last?
πͺ This is the starter kit, a Thucydidean reading list:
π Civil War, Tyrannies Turned Inwards, How Language Changes in War, and so on and so on
WATCH: What I read and why
πΏπ₯€ Watch this video π This is what I read and why I read it
βοΈ All the notes I take, and
β What I don’t read why I don’t read it
π Please watch and tell me what you think π€
Thucydides. HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS
THUCYDIDES, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war in which the Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another.
Machiavelli. Good Bad Cruelty
A deep exploration of Machiavelli and “…severities being badly or properly used.” I’ve also audiobook’d it to get it into your mind. Enjoy
Read this book
Thank you for visiting this list of what I have read. The past and present will be gone soon and this is how to get it back.
Why you should read Machiavelli
Machiavelli uses the past to solve the present. People Operating Systems, construction and administration. An essay, audiobook’d
Michael Anton: Machiavelli and a tyranny turned inwards
A chat with Michael Anton: Machiavelli, Thucydides, a Green Zone in D.C and a tyranny turned inwards
Plastic words: the tyranny of a modular language
Plastic words begin as scientific terms with highly specialized meanings. They are malleable and in an uncanny way fit every circumstance.
Alcibiades the Musical! (first draft)
π Alcibiades the Musical πΆ starts with an adorable child wearing glasses π§π in the first row turns to face the crowd and sings the opening number π§βπ€ “Same Shit Different Day.
πIt begins