Curtis Dozier

Decarbonize electricity. (this) problem solved

Re slavers/fascists. What's your take on the idea, which I associate with VDH but I doubt it originates with him, that armies from democracies always (usually?) defeat totalitarian armies? It's so embedded in triumphalist narratives of Western Civ that to me it's suspect on its face

Even better

Latests PI includes Jennifer Roberts on Thucydides: "A whole book could easily be written on the use and abuse of Thucydides in the United States alone over the past hundred years." I hope someone will take this up!

Latin Mottoes in State Flags Sanitize Colonial Violence Land Acknowledgement: Pharos is researched, written, and published online at Vassar College, an institution situated in the homeland of the Munsee Lenape people. Please read more. In 2024, the state o...

I wrote about Latin on state flags & colonial violence for Pharos. I intended to publish on Flag Day but then a terrorist assassinated a MN State Rep and we start w MNs new flag. Monday after July 4th is another good time for thinking about nationalist symbols pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/07/07/l...

It's so frustrating, my institution has a repository but it's designed in a way that search engines can't find and those running it are indifferent to that fact (I guess they see it as purely archival?); meanwhile stuff on academia shows up well in search. Other options you're aware of now?

Musk, regretting the world he brought about, says he's now all about empathy, which he recently said was "the fundamental weakness of Western Civilization." I wrote about how that view dovetails well with white nationalist thought about Greco-Roman antiquity: pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/04/25/e...

Those of us trying to do critical work in Classics are sometimes told we are risking too much in a hostile higher ed climate and guess what, they were coming for us anyway no matter what we did

Yes, also better news for engagement elsewhere, I feel like 25-34 elsewhere has a better chance of turning out than 18-24 elsewhere

Wow this is a steal

I agree with this, for all his name recognition Cuomo was weak in NYC, the dude couldn't even claim to eat a bagel for breakfast, so I'm excited about Mamdani but wondering how it transfers

And you know what, these days I would take another Hadrian

Also his beard! I can't grow one myself but it made me think about how few politicians have that (last president: Taft!)/why that might be and then inevitably I think of Hadrian whose beard we learned about in HS and only now am I like huh I guess that was a big deal & not just some wacky factoid

This makes me realize I don't know how to learn where my scholarship has been cited! How did you learn about this cite?

One of the ways this formulation of it became popular is its catchy/legible name, yes, but also the veneer or intellectual depth that the originator of this version (of a much older idea) bestowed upon it. His analysis of Plato is one of the ways he produced that appearance of depth 2/

Here we have a prominent political commentator and white house advisor promoting the white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy theory. The man who gave it that name began his analysis with a discussion of a Platonic dialogue. 1/ pharos.vassarspaces.net/2019/10/07/g...

Luckily there are other good reasons to read books, including ones that might be more persuasive to kids! like fun! (with the right book)

How long have I been doing this and only today learned that Goebbels had a doctorate in philology

The terrorist in MN who murdered Melissa and Mark Hortman named his security company "Praetorian Guard Security Services." It's just a small piece of the picture, but when so many representations of ancient Rome idealize violence, a certain number of people are going to take that to heart

Classical Rhetoric Presidential Campaign Syllabus Syllabus for my course "Classical Rhetoric and the Presidential Campaign."

A few years ago I shared a version of my syllabus. It's a good course and the students get a lot out of it. "Classical Rhetoric" is capacious enough to say something valuable the current landscape. But it's hard to give up the pull of trad. political speech/media www.academia.edu/35562142/Cla...

Since 2008 I've taught a course on Classical Rhetoric and the Presidential Campaign. We always learn a ton, and we never just focused on speeches, but this article speaks to what has haunted me every time, that what we're looking at just doesn't matter

The classicizing temple logo is just a bonus

A man wearing a "Internet Archive" baseball cap against a leafy collegiate background

New hat from @archive.org for an age of censorship and erasure of history. Get yours at store.archive.org/internet-arc... They threw in a free sticker too!

pics or it didn't happen lol

It's like what are the odds for these kinds of texts

Sarah you totally had me going with "Xbox President Sarah Bond"

Just came back from intl conference in Spain (European dictatorships/classics). Almost every European I met had studied in the US. Some at Ivies but many at middle-US public universities. And they will tell you they now work at prominent institutions in their home countries bc of that experience

Thanks for the shoutout...I've been away from the news for the week while speaking in Spain about Classics and European dictatorships (marginaliaclassica.es/recepcion-cl...). What is this text from? Announcement of visa denials to EU/UK citizens?

And now it's driving government policy etc etc as
@eyesontheright.bsky.social
& others are saying. It only took a few years. I've added the knowledge that Greco-Roman antiquity played a role in establishing and promoting it but that's such trivial addition in comparison to what the theory has done

It was bad enough that the conspiracy theory was inspring lone wolf terrorists. But Robert Pape's research on the Jan 6 insurrection found that belief in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory was the "key driver" of participation in the attack 5/ d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/cpost/i/docs...