Philanthropy in the Desert

by Hans Boersma

God's mysteries cannot be solved; they are meant to be lived instead. Continue Reading »

23 Feb 2024

The Greatness of Alexander

by James Hankins

Ancient biographers' assessment of Alexander the Great is strikingly different from that of his modern biographers. For in our age, we tend think that heroism is a mere cover for self-interest.  Continue Reading »

12 May 2023

Princeton and the Erosion of Expertise

by Solveig Gold

Classicists should, at the very least, know the common linguistic thread that binds their discipline together. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2021

Thumbing an Issue of Forbes

by J. L. Wall

In the obits, ballplayers still finish first,their August exploits no one quite remembersrestored to life: the diving stop unrehearsedamid the routine plays of life’s surrender. But beneath our unnamed pastoral hero,I’ll find her, too, Ms. Forbes-Under-Thirtywho built a company up from zero,ran . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

The Gospel According to
David Bentley

by Paul V. Mankowski

The New Testament: A Translation by david bentley hart yale, 616 pages, $35 David Bentley Hart’s new single-handed translation of the New Testament will strike the fair-minded reader by turns as startling, incisive, audacious, smug, shrewd, and quirky to the point of exasperation: everything, in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2017

Declaiming Homer

by Sarah Ruden

The Iliad translated by peter green university of california, 608 pages, $29.95 A translator of Homer is like a pentathlete, who needs not just sheer stamina but a variety of skills. The first example of European literary writing adapts episodes of the Trojan War myth from a long, winding oral . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2016