Athenian Stranger
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I teach the Great Books of our tradition ||Excellence in education: Intro through PhD level || SubStack @AthensCorner
Joined December 2020
Friends, My recording on Thucydides’ entire “archaeology” is completed and I’ve made it available for everyone because of how relevant it is for us today. It took me over a month of editing to ensure none of your time is wasted in listening. I hope you enjoy it. (Link below)
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Failure of Enlightenment, failure of our political ideas and concepts. So what is the political?—the friend/enemy distinction? But what distinguishes friendship, and what can it teach us? Plato’s Cave: The political is a cave, but how do we “see” our way out? What’s a friend?
I was happily surprised by the interest this impromptu discussion gained, and so I’ve uploaded it to my SubStack (link in comment below) t’s far easier listening to recordings on SubStack than X, and I’ve made it free and downloadable for all — again, link in the comment below
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For millions of moms, the grocery bill is one of the biggest strains on the family budget. Since 2020, price of canned fruits and vegetables has already risen 31% and likely to be even greater throughout 2025. The Admin can act to protect families and strengthen food security!
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Stupidity is most painful to those who have to witness it.
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Today I’m teaching (one-on-one) the following with a few of my clients beginning at 11am and nonstop till 9pm: — Shakespeare — Plato — Aristotle — George Washington and Benjamin Franklin —Nietzsche — Heidegger It’s been the most enjoyable and rewarding experience of my life
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I was happily surprised by the interest this impromptu discussion gained, and so I’ve uploaded it to my SubStack (link in comment below) t’s far easier listening to recordings on SubStack than X, and I’ve made it free and downloadable for all — again, link in the comment below
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The Other Tom Green Show | Episode 7 with @karlmecklenburg
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Spirited young men always respond positively to finger-wagging school-marm shaming, of course.
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I’ll discuss “the concept of the political” in the “great books,” emphasizing its relevance for America today and in relation to the American founding At issue: education, friendship, technology, rhetoric, sophistry (with reference to it as propaganda)
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“BUT ATHENIAN mUh tecHnO aNarCHo xeNo FeUdaLiSm SYSTEM!!!” … full retard, no different that what you claim to be so passionately against 😒 Read the writings of your best ancestors — separate yourself from the “now” with the skin of 300 years, then you will find true greatness
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Big Banks kick off earnings season with a clean sweep! The MicroSectors™ U.S. Big Banks Index constituents started earnings season strong, going 4-for-4 this morning as $C, $WFC, $JPM, and $GS all beat both earnings and revenue expectations. Up next: Wednesday (pre-market):
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…that’s how we lost our institutions, our “culture,” our country, ourselves as a people (!) But, hey, by all means, keep talking endlessly about the fashionable scribblers while claiming you’re defending the thought of the tradition you don’t even know as well as the scribblers
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… we’ve long had words for such people over-invested in the most fashionably recent ideas as if what’s latest is greatest. Here’s a few: — “progressives” — “liberals” — “Moderns” — “Postmoderns” — “the Enlightenment” But, hey, no biggie b/c they say they’re defending tradition
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… they talk endlessly about the “theories” and dumb neologisms of what mere fashionable scribblers are diagnosing America, the “West,” and Christianity with while being absolutely *clueless* to the thought of our greatest predecessors AND YET, they claim to defend tradition …
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Too many people are endlessly reading, discussing etc the various “theories” of contemporary commentators on politics who are mere third-rate popularizers of fashionable political slop, mere scribblers (usually not even American!) Yet they claim to be defending tradition (!)
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Gold has been nuts. Wish I started trading it a bit earlier in this rally. Thank you @Topstep for no consistency rule in funded, or I'd be making a habit of leaving a ridiculous amount of profit on the table.
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Originally published in 1963, Kerr’s analysis of the purposes of the university —higher education— in America went through 5 editions until his death After no less than 5 times to revise his findings, in the final 2001 preface: “It had become the worst of all possible worlds”
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What does it take to build something truly new in this world of ours? In a word: people. You could say “courage”, “luck”, “dedication”, “time”, “patience”, “vision”, “resources”, “the right tools”, and “faith” and you would not be wrong. But instruments are always moved by
Meaningful change never happens overnight. It takes years to establish and generations to perfect. The Lyceum Institute aims to build a new future for education—knowing it will not come quickly or easily, but that from a few minds truly dedicated to the cause, we can bring new
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Hello to all of my friends! It has been a relief to take a break from the internet as much as possible over the last month or two. I missed a few of you, and so I would like to resume having some online conversations with people who genuinely care about learning and improving
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What is philosophy? Plato Who is the philosopher? Plato What philosophy should I read? Plato
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The world is full of people who escalate their ignorance of not reading Plato to not understanding him and end in not liking him.
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The advocates of decency and kindness and that catch-all nothing word "nice" as the height of human achievement lack all traditional virtues. Brief and superficial social interaction is the most their ethical theories can tolerate.
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