What’s Wrong with Weird? Charles McNamara The ancient history of the latest political taunt The Romans would have been great at TikTok—perhaps not all of them, but surely the politicians. Long...
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SHORT TAKES CHARLES MCNAMARA What Is Equity? And why is the Right so upset about it? We live in the age of “equity,” a word suddenly on the lips of activists and politicians everywhere....
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SHORT TAKES CHARLES MCNAMARA Know-Nothing Know-It-Alls The real problem with QAnon Even as Donald Trump’s administration sinks into history, the country is still smarting from January’s...
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BOOKS Cicero Will Outlive Your Tweets CHARLES MCNAMARA In the first pages of Oxford professor Nicola Gardini’s unapologetic paean to Latin literary craft, he defends the ancient Roman tongue...
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BOOKS Minds Stocked Only with Opinions CHARLES MCNAMARA LOST IN THOUGHT The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life zena hitz Princeton University Press $22.95 | 240 pp. After a spring of...
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Charles McNamara Not Tragic, Just Sad The Case for Trump Victor Davis Hanson Basic Books, $30, 400 pp. At its etymological root, tragedy has something to do with goats (tragos "goat" + oide...
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SHORT TAKES Lead Us Not into Temptation SHOULD A KEY PHRASE OF THE LORD'S PRAYER BE RETRANSLATED? Charles McNamara Even though it has been central to Christian devotion since Jesus’ Sermon on...
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Charles McNamara Report from the Afterlife Aeneid Book VI Translated by Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23, 97 pp. Written during the political ascent of the Emperor Augustus, Virgil's...
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LAST WORD The Resurrection Will Be a Remix Charles McNamara The Latin verb remisceo—to remix—appears fewer than twenty times in the first millennium of Latin texts. Making its debut in the final...
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