Curtis Dozier
@curtisdozier.bsky.social
Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
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My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
This is from 10 days ago but it's great to see Rome used for laughs instead of fascism.
NEW: A little judicial schadenfreude! This made me smile today, and I hope it makes you smile, too. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-little-j...
A Little Judicial Schadenfreude
One of my favorite things in court filings are little turns of the knife - especially when it has to do with Caesar himself. Allow me to explain.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is from 10 days ago but it's great to see Rome used for laughs instead of fascism.
Does anyone want an out of date hot take about womens professional cycling? I'm just obsessing over this for some reason. I finally watched Stage 1 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes. Ferrand-Prévot broke away maybe 500m from the finish. It looked like she would win but then she started fading. 1/
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Does anyone want an out of date hot take about womens professional cycling? I'm just obsessing over this for some reason. I finally watched Stage 1 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes. Ferrand-Prévot broke away maybe 500m from the finish. It looked like she would win but then she started fading. 1/
"'Critics say' is the tell...if you have enough money to get somebody to produce a white paper for you...[then,] no matter how unhinged the position you’ve taken...that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times." lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"'Critics say' is the tell...if you have enough money to get somebody to produce a white paper for you...[then,] no matter how unhinged the position you’ve taken...that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times." lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Bannon must have been excited to get an award with a Latin name (Bellator) from a right wing org that uses a classical helmet as its symbol and that offers fellowships to train "public policy warriors" with Latin names like "Magnus" "Intrepidus" and "Legatum". pharos.vassarspaces.net/2022/12/19/s...
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Bannon must have been excited to get an award with a Latin name (Bellator) from a right wing org that uses a classical helmet as its symbol and that offers fellowships to train "public policy warriors" with Latin names like "Magnus" "Intrepidus" and "Legatum". pharos.vassarspaces.net/2022/12/19/s...
Musk — at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives — is still on about the "suicidal empathy" of "Western Civilization," talking points reminiscent of those of notorious antisemites, race pseudo-scientists, and white supremacists pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/04/25/e...
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Musk — at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives — is still on about the "suicidal empathy" of "Western Civilization," talking points reminiscent of those of notorious antisemites, race pseudo-scientists, and white supremacists pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/04/25/e...
Don't Forget the Roman Empire! pharos.vassarspaces.net/2018/02/02/f...
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Don't Forget the Roman Empire! pharos.vassarspaces.net/2018/02/02/f...
We consulted a (print) dictionary on a point of pronunciation and, my pronunciation having been deemed more regular, my 10yo asked "but isn't the dictionary's determination only the judgement of the maker of the dictionary?" and at first I was proud and then I wondered if this is why we have Trump
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
We consulted a (print) dictionary on a point of pronunciation and, my pronunciation having been deemed more regular, my 10yo asked "but isn't the dictionary's determination only the judgement of the maker of the dictionary?" and at first I was proud and then I wondered if this is why we have Trump
This was true in the local elections here: conditions were bad for republican incumbents, yes, but also we had better people running than in many past years
"I think it was a rejection of Trump, but I don't think you should sleep on the fact that there were really good candidates running." Candidates who effectively voiced the discontent voters are feeling with Trump.
@governor.pa.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:
@governor.pa.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This was true in the local elections here: conditions were bad for republican incumbents, yes, but also we had better people running than in many past years
I care so much! Keep posting these stories!
Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I care so much! Keep posting these stories!
Don't forget the little people: huge night for Dems in NY's Dutchess County, including crushing a terrible incumbent county court judge and flipping the county legislature. Love to see these downballot wins from across the nation! midhudsonnews.com/2025/11/05/d...
Dutchess Dems win big across the county - Mid Hudson News
POUGHKEEPSIE – Democrats in Dutchess County were the big winners Tuesday night, including keeping the comptroller seat, defeating an incumbent Republican county court judge, and flipping the county le...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Don't forget the little people: huge night for Dems in NY's Dutchess County, including crushing a terrible incumbent county court judge and flipping the county legislature. Love to see these downballot wins from across the nation! midhudsonnews.com/2025/11/05/d...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if one forgets to check the rotation direction of a bike tire when replacing it, they must put it on the wrong way even though you would think they had a 50/50 chance of doing it right
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if one forgets to check the rotation direction of a bike tire when replacing it, they must put it on the wrong way even though you would think they had a 50/50 chance of doing it right
"The report has no answer to the media ownership problem. It doesn’t even raise it as a question. It includes pages upon pages bemoaning the Democratic Party’s messaging woes, without ever considering that the problem might be that its opponents have access to much larger megaphones."
My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing.
On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"The report has no answer to the media ownership problem. It doesn’t even raise it as a question. It includes pages upon pages bemoaning the Democratic Party’s messaging woes, without ever considering that the problem might be that its opponents have access to much larger megaphones."
When they say "difference divides people" like it's a fact, recognize it instead as an argument, which they are making because they are afraid of what would happen if people collaborated and showed solidarity across difference
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
When they say "difference divides people" like it's a fact, recognize it instead as an argument, which they are making because they are afraid of what would happen if people collaborated and showed solidarity across difference
This was a no-brainer to pre-order for me. Tara is such a perceptive reader of ancient culture with such an acute sense of why it all matters. Gonna be 🔥. And of course this topic matters more than ever in an age of restriction, censorship, and violence around reproduction
My book is coming on May 7, 2026. Pre-orders available now from Barnes & Noble and Bookshop!
www.ucpress.edu/books/a-womb...
www.ucpress.edu/books/a-womb...
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This was a no-brainer to pre-order for me. Tara is such a perceptive reader of ancient culture with such an acute sense of why it all matters. Gonna be 🔥. And of course this topic matters more than ever in an age of restriction, censorship, and violence around reproduction
I might say, the best preserved and most studied parts of Greco-Roman antiquity were largely reactionary and authoritarian (which is why they are the best preserved and most studied)
Lots of good insights in this review - especially with how we need to accept that reactionaries and authoritarians love the Classics because Greeks and Romans were largely reactionary and authoritarian!
October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I might say, the best preserved and most studied parts of Greco-Roman antiquity were largely reactionary and authoritarian (which is why they are the best preserved and most studied)
Thanks to @emilyhanscam.bsky.social for the invitation to review "Classical Controversies" for @traj-journal.bsky.social.
I took the opportunity to reflect on how, reviewing in 2025, some themes/emphases resound differently from when the book came out in 2022.
traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
I took the opportunity to reflect on how, reviewing in 2025, some themes/emphases resound differently from when the book came out in 2022.
traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thanks to @emilyhanscam.bsky.social for the invitation to review "Classical Controversies" for @traj-journal.bsky.social.
I took the opportunity to reflect on how, reviewing in 2025, some themes/emphases resound differently from when the book came out in 2022.
traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
I took the opportunity to reflect on how, reviewing in 2025, some themes/emphases resound differently from when the book came out in 2022.
traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
This Friday, conference in Valencia Spain on Antiquity and the Extreme Right in Europe and the US in the 21st century, hosted by @anihoproject.bsky.social
Próximo evento: este viernes 31 de octubre nos reuniremos para debatir colectivamente sobre un tema de total actualidad: Antigüedad y extrema derecha en Europa y EEUU en el siglo XXI: estrategias, apropiaciones y distorsiones.
Online: labur.eus/aniho2025
Online: labur.eus/aniho2025
October 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This Friday, conference in Valencia Spain on Antiquity and the Extreme Right in Europe and the US in the 21st century, hosted by @anihoproject.bsky.social
Today I'm speaking at @birthingthenation.bsky.social about how mass murderers use GrecoRoman antiquity to ennoble their violence. Part of the picture is that ancient violence is so sanitized/idealized in mainstream representations of it. This book tells part of the story of how that came to be.
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Today I'm speaking at @birthingthenation.bsky.social about how mass murderers use GrecoRoman antiquity to ennoble their violence. Part of the picture is that ancient violence is so sanitized/idealized in mainstream representations of it. This book tells part of the story of how that came to be.
I spoke recently on Greco-Roman women in white nationalist thought and a smart grad student pointed out they admire only on ideal/unreal women, because that's how misogyny works. So this conference on "subversive motherhood" is welcome, w/ several papers on historical women tinyurl.com/4bhbyw4r
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October 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I spoke recently on Greco-Roman women in white nationalist thought and a smart grad student pointed out they admire only on ideal/unreal women, because that's how misogyny works. So this conference on "subversive motherhood" is welcome, w/ several papers on historical women tinyurl.com/4bhbyw4r
Reposted by Curtis Dozier
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
I'm fanboying a lot lately, first @shaneburley.bsky.social blurbs my book on white nationalism and classics (see pins), then @wendling.bsky.social calls to talk about Western Civilization, now I see I'm on a panel with @areidross.bsky.social at the @birthingthenation.bsky.social conference this week
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I'm fanboying a lot lately, first @shaneburley.bsky.social blurbs my book on white nationalism and classics (see pins), then @wendling.bsky.social calls to talk about Western Civilization, now I see I'm on a panel with @areidross.bsky.social at the @birthingthenation.bsky.social conference this week
@wendling.bsky.social made a "Mini-Guide" to discourse about "Western Civilization" out of conversations he had with me and others for an episode of the BBC's AntiSocial about far right backlash against an art exhibition at Canterbury Cathedral
"Western civilization", it's good right?
Democracy, freedom of speech, rule of law.
Here's how the far right uses their version of "western civ" to advance their agenda, with help from @curtisdozier.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Democracy, freedom of speech, rule of law.
Here's how the far right uses their version of "western civ" to advance their agenda, with help from @curtisdozier.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
AntiSocial - How right-wing activists use 'Western civilisation' - BBC Sounds
How right-wing activists use 'Western civilisation'
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
@wendling.bsky.social made a "Mini-Guide" to discourse about "Western Civilization" out of conversations he had with me and others for an episode of the BBC's AntiSocial about far right backlash against an art exhibition at Canterbury Cathedral
My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Last week I got to talk to @wendling.bsky.social, a journalist I've admired for a long time, about the appeal of "Western Civilization" to far right politics as part of a BBC show on backlash against Canterbury Cathedral's current art exhibition. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
October 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Last week I got to talk to @wendling.bsky.social, a journalist I've admired for a long time, about the appeal of "Western Civilization" to far right politics as part of a BBC show on backlash against Canterbury Cathedral's current art exhibition. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
Roman Gravestone Inscription that was recorded in CIL turns up in New Orleans back yard. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Ancient Roman Gravestone Found in New Orleans Backyard Touches Off a Mystery
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October 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Roman Gravestone Inscription that was recorded in CIL turns up in New Orleans back yard. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...