Cliff Robinson
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Classicist and public humanist. I study philosophy, art, and literature, especially (but not exclusively) in ancient Greek and Latin.
Really looking forward to this one…
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September 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Really looking forward to this one…
This point squares with the reality that people often do read extensively outside of the college classroom—and not always the most straightforward or simple texts.
It’s also let’s be clear cultural - in that it’s been drilled into students that our courses “don’t matter” and that college is a certification process, something to pass through on their way, so do it as quickly as possible
I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.
July 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This point squares with the reality that people often do read extensively outside of the college classroom—and not always the most straightforward or simple texts.
Posting this for my own future reference.
I believe you can do that in the Proofing tab, under AutoCorrect Options. Select the AutoFormat As You Type tab, and under Replace as you type, select "Straight quotes" to be replaced by “smart quotes” in the check box. Or just in "Replace" and do the same. All new documents should follow this.
July 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Posting this for my own future reference.
Martelli’s “The Triumph of Letters: Rewriting Cicero in ad Fam. 15” (JRS 107) does an admirable job of working out the book-level unity achieved by the editor of Cicero’s letters. The main point of the fifteenth book appears to be that Cicero could be posthumously affiliated with the conspirators
July 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Martelli’s “The Triumph of Letters: Rewriting Cicero in ad Fam. 15” (JRS 107) does an admirable job of working out the book-level unity achieved by the editor of Cicero’s letters. The main point of the fifteenth book appears to be that Cicero could be posthumously affiliated with the conspirators
Enjoyed reading Allison Jeppesen-Wiglesworth’s “Political Bedfellows: Tullia, Dolabella, and Caelius” this morning. Her main point—demonstrated through a number of sensitive and alert readings of Cicero’s letter from 58 and from 51-50 BCE—is that Tullia and Terentia acted with calculation
June 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Enjoyed reading Allison Jeppesen-Wiglesworth’s “Political Bedfellows: Tullia, Dolabella, and Caelius” this morning. Her main point—demonstrated through a number of sensitive and alert readings of Cicero’s letter from 58 and from 51-50 BCE—is that Tullia and Terentia acted with calculation
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What cool new (or new to you, or old) piece of ancient history scholarship did you read this week? #ClassicsBluesky
June 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What cool new (or new to you, or old) piece of ancient history scholarship did you read this week? #ClassicsBluesky
Delighted by Kathy Eden’s short study of letter writing, “The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy.” Though the book sometimes strains to read “familiaritas” as “intimacy,” the general treatment of letter-writing and style in terms of the distinctively proper person of its author is perceptive.
May 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Delighted by Kathy Eden’s short study of letter writing, “The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy.” Though the book sometimes strains to read “familiaritas” as “intimacy,” the general treatment of letter-writing and style in terms of the distinctively proper person of its author is perceptive.
Getting a preview of the impressive Brandon Terry’s forthcoming book on Martin Luther King’s tragic vision—that the struggle for egalitarian liberation and justice is a heroic one, to be taken up by engaging directly to affect the moral arc of the universe.
April 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Getting a preview of the impressive Brandon Terry’s forthcoming book on Martin Luther King’s tragic vision—that the struggle for egalitarian liberation and justice is a heroic one, to be taken up by engaging directly to affect the moral arc of the universe.
It was such a great pleasure to see Marie-Claire Marcotte’s beautiful “Neon Dreaming” / “Rêver en néon” at the FrancoFest & Princeton French Film Festival on Saturday. If you have a chance to see this magical and moving exploration of childhood, imagination and daughters’ love for their mothers….
March 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It was such a great pleasure to see Marie-Claire Marcotte’s beautiful “Neon Dreaming” / “Rêver en néon” at the FrancoFest & Princeton French Film Festival on Saturday. If you have a chance to see this magical and moving exploration of childhood, imagination and daughters’ love for their mothers….
Likewise! I have a lot of respect for this one. Universities and their faculties don’t always live up to their ideals, but there are times when a clear line is drawn and people show what they really stand for.
Today I'm filled with admiration for my university's president, Chris Eisgruber. He's standing up for Columbia and for universities as a home for freedom of ideas, debate, and thought - free of government attack. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Likewise! I have a lot of respect for this one. Universities and their faculties don’t always live up to their ideals, but there are times when a clear line is drawn and people show what they really stand for.
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This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
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March 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It's a great time for thinking. It's always a great time for thinking.
March 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It's a great time for thinking. It's always a great time for thinking.
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A friend of mine shared this article surveying so-called “Alt Lit,” a phenomenon I hadn’t heard of. The problems discussed here are among the reasons why I always return to classic literature. thepointmag.com/criticism/al...
Alt Lit | The Point Magazine
The thing that actually matters about a scene is the work it produces. So I decided to read the work.
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February 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A friend of mine shared this article surveying so-called “Alt Lit,” a phenomenon I hadn’t heard of. The problems discussed here are among the reasons why I always return to classic literature. thepointmag.com/criticism/al...
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Every time I go to a public library I begin to believe again that we can create amazing things that are just there for all to enjoy and use for free.
January 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Every time I go to a public library I begin to believe again that we can create amazing things that are just there for all to enjoy and use for free.
I’m getting a lot out of Philip Lewis’s “The Public Humanities Turn.” In general we need to realize in a much more fundamental way that even our “private non-profit” universities depend upon constituting powers that imbue them with the authority and leadership that they command for better and worse.
January 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I’m getting a lot out of Philip Lewis’s “The Public Humanities Turn.” In general we need to realize in a much more fundamental way that even our “private non-profit” universities depend upon constituting powers that imbue them with the authority and leadership that they command for better and worse.
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I want to coin a term for something like "the opinion journalism riptide" for the process by which experts who develop some kind of public audience get pulled towards becoming generalist pundits.
Cause the pull is real: you've always had opinions, but now people are listening.
Cause the pull is real: you've always had opinions, but now people are listening.
December 31, 2024 at 4:45 PM
I want to coin a term for something like "the opinion journalism riptide" for the process by which experts who develop some kind of public audience get pulled towards becoming generalist pundits.
Cause the pull is real: you've always had opinions, but now people are listening.
Cause the pull is real: you've always had opinions, but now people are listening.
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I'm turning now to Donato's follow up in Classical World 106, 3: "Self-Examination and Consolation in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy," published in Spring 2013.
December 23, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I'm turning now to Donato's follow up in Classical World 106, 3: "Self-Examination and Consolation in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy," published in Spring 2013.
Today I'm revisiting Antonio Donato's "Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy and the Greco-Roman Consolatory Tradition," published in Traditio 67, in 2012. I admire Donato's approach to Boethius' Consolatio, even though I have a lot of differences when it comes to overall conclusions and emphases.
December 21, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Today I'm revisiting Antonio Donato's "Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy and the Greco-Roman Consolatory Tradition," published in Traditio 67, in 2012. I admire Donato's approach to Boethius' Consolatio, even though I have a lot of differences when it comes to overall conclusions and emphases.
I remember 2011 as a time that felt pregnant with political possibilities. This moment seems more like a fatal plunge…
A great example of how the far-right is using antiquity mixed with cultural anthropology to bend history their way in order to justify their ideology. Great article and worth a read!
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The alt-right co-opting Sparta; the left adopting Athenian direct democracy.
Why Greek politics seems to be leaning into its ancient past, and what it means for everyone.
A terrific analysis here from Neil Middleton.
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The alt-right co-opting Sparta; the left adopting Athenian direct democracy.
Why Greek politics seems to be leaning into its ancient past, and what it means for everyone.
A terrific analysis here from Neil Middleton.
www.workingclassicis...
November 14, 2024 at 4:36 PM
I remember 2011 as a time that felt pregnant with political possibilities. This moment seems more like a fatal plunge…
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I keep seeing leftist people, communities, and orgs collapse from the same errors:
- Following the lead of folks more concerned with having fights with enemies than building coalitions with allies
- Inadequate distress tolerance and conflict resolution skills
- Inattention to disability justice
- Following the lead of folks more concerned with having fights with enemies than building coalitions with allies
- Inadequate distress tolerance and conflict resolution skills
- Inattention to disability justice
November 1, 2024 at 11:13 PM
I keep seeing leftist people, communities, and orgs collapse from the same errors:
- Following the lead of folks more concerned with having fights with enemies than building coalitions with allies
- Inadequate distress tolerance and conflict resolution skills
- Inattention to disability justice
- Following the lead of folks more concerned with having fights with enemies than building coalitions with allies
- Inadequate distress tolerance and conflict resolution skills
- Inattention to disability justice
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A reminder to get in touch with Ashley and Tara if you'd like to submit your work on Indigeneity in Classics for the "Rez Diff" issue of #ResDiffJournal
It is my great pleasure to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Res Difficiles, The Journal guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells: 'Rez Diff.' We invite submissions on topics of Indigeneity in Classics. Due 15 Nov.
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November 1, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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The Humanities Podcast Network is holding its 4th annual online Symposium November 8 & 9! The theme is “Best Practices”, and there’s a wide range of panels, including one we're on – come join us!
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October 23, 2024 at 3:12 PM
The Humanities Podcast Network is holding its 4th annual online Symposium November 8 & 9! The theme is “Best Practices”, and there’s a wide range of panels, including one we're on – come join us!
Register here, for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual...
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