Archive for the 'ancient history'

• New Book: Rome’s Last Citizen

October 29th, 2012 by zen

Posted in ancient history, authors, book, history, roman empire | Comments Off on New Book: Rome’s Last Citizen

• Harvey Mansfield on Elections and Democracy

August 31st, 2012 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analytic, ancient history, democracy, government, Oligarchy, philosophy, politics, society, theory, Uncategorized | 8 comments

• New Books

August 27th, 2012 by zen

Posted in academia, ancient history, authors, book, drones, fiction, fun, futurism, historians, historiography, history, ideas, intellectuals, Republic, roman empire, science fiction, shlok, war | 1 comment

• Book Review: Thucydides:The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan

July 5th, 2012 by zen

Posted in academia, ancient history, authors, bias, book, counterintuitive, culture, democracy, empire, greece, historians, historiography, history, ideas, intellectuals, literature, military history, reading, state failure, strategy, Strategy and War, Uncategorized, war | 6 comments

• When Does Conflict Become “War”?

May 22nd, 2012 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, ancient history, anthropology, classics, Clausewitzian, cognition, complex systems, culture, economics, Epistemology, Evolution, framing, genocide, geopolitics, government, history, ideas, literature, logic, military, military history, Musings, non-state actors, Oligarchy, Patterns, peace, Perception, philosophy, primary loyalties, Questions, risk, security, social science, society, sociobiology, state building, strategy, Strategy and War, synthesis, Tactics, theory, tribes, Uncategorized, uncertainty, war, warriors | 10 comments