My WPR column this week puts a cap on Thucydipalooza: Thucydides is nearly ubiquitous in the serious and general study of American foreign policy. Although we lack good statistics for how often particular texts are taught in graduate or undergraduate courses, nearly every professor of...
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As Bahrain, Libya, and Wisconsin burn, I've been in San Antonio for a Liberty Fund conference on "Strategy and Liberty in Thucydides Peloponnesian War". There are sixteen participants, sporting.
It's interesting to me that "must" is so big in the tag clouds of both the Bush and Obama NSS. "Must" implies a lack of freedom; it's much different than.
While searching for a Youtube for a video representation of the Melian Dialogue (no luck thus far) I stumbled upon this, a BBC teleplay based on History of the Peloponnesian War with Ben Kingsley as Pericles and Nathaniel Parker as Alcibiades. I'd kill a man...