July 3, 2009

  • Daily Kos appears to want some rogueclassicism love … He’s the Last Action Hero, with nothing to lose. He’s term-limited from running again, can’t run for President, and has a fallback job that he actually likes. He can do what no one has been able to do since Prop 13 passed and reform state government.…

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  • Classical Pop

    New York Magazine has an interview with Iggy Pop,  inter alia: You describe the album as an “alternative score” to Michel Houellebecq’s 2005 sci-fi novel, The Possibility of an Island. What else have you been reading lately? I read The Jazz Ear, by Ben Ratliff, and I just finished Vermeer’s Hat, by Timothy Brook. And…

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  • Latin in the News

    Over the past month or so, there have been quite a few articles relating to Latin, Latin teaching, and the like. Many of the following made the rounds of various lists, but just in case you missed them: Mary Beard wasn’t enamoured of the new ‘Grace before meals’ written by some Cambridge students: Does college…

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  • Another bit of catching up … Sally Knights has put together a new GCSE textbook on Classical Civilization: Bristol teacher publishes new classics textbook (Evening Post) The secret life of Randall McNeill: The secret lives of our profs (Lawrentian) An interview with John Prevas (and Steve Forbes) about their book, Power, Ambition, Glory: Steve Forbes,…

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  • Obama Achilleus?

    Wonder what the reaction will be to this cartoon in the Times that’s making the rounds:

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