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.
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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...

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...

New hat from @archive.org for an age of censorship and erasure of history. Get yours at store.archive.org/internet-arc... They threw in a free sticker too!

I'll be speaking about my work on contemporary white nationalist classicism at this conference in Madrid on European Dictatorships & Classics next week. Excited to learn from historians of fascism about the background to what I'm studying in the 21st century
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But the version of the speech published in 2004 leaves out a whole page where Reagan develops the comparison between Rome and American much more fully. You can still read these pages in the version preserved in a PDF at the Reagan Presidential Library's site 4/ www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/digit...

Here's an example of sanitizing history that I found today. When Ronald Reagan died, Simon & Schuster published a book of his "favorite speeches" called "Speaking My Mind." 🧵

The argument Musk is making here resembles that published in a peer reviewed journal by a PhD who has given interviews to notorious white supremacist publications. It's so bad the journal published a rebuttal in the same issue. I wrote about it for Pharos: pharos.vassarspaces.net/2020/10/30/p...

Last week I re-shared Pharos' article abt G-R antiquity on an "All White Dating Service." When I checked to see if it was back on Twitter after a ban I found that even Musk's X was too oppressive for them. But Marcus Aurelius as an "ancestor" for such a site? pharos.vassarspaces.net/2022/02/14/w...

New post at Pharos: "When Hate Memes Teach History." What do our students learn online about the ancient world before they ever make it into our classes?
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Can someone explain something Ive always wondered? Here arelines from Euripides' Hecuba (TLG). Diggle's the same way. His app.crit. doesn't say he's excised lines. Variants for "Orion" printed for line 1102. Where are the other lines? How would you know the one line btwn 1100 and 1105 is 1102?

It's fun to dunk on Mike Johnson for his claim that homosexuality caused the fall of Rome but let's not forget how something like that idea appears in ancient sources and popular history books pharos.vassarspaces.net/2023/11/06/m... Ancient Bluesky

I did this last Spring. It's a great program! AncientBlueSky MedievalBlueSky