Brad Roth·May 16, 2025The Age of Reason BeginsThe title of this week’s post is ironic, because with all the events of the last few months I often suspect that the Age of Reason is…
Frank Breslin·Feb 15, 2025Don’t aspire to a position “above your station.”Sutor ne supra crepidam. A cobbler should stick to his last (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 35. 36. 85). Your father was a shoemaker, so…
Frank Breslin·Nov 14, 20243 Theories about how the Middle Ages Got StartedSutor ne supra crepidam. A cobbler should stick to his last (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 35. 36. 85). Your father was a shoemaker, so…
Frank Breslin·Oct 15, 2024On Survival: Part 2 (Different Views of History)Don’t aspire to a position “above your station.”
InAge of AwarenessbyFrank Breslin·May 5, 2024Marxist, Christian, & Secular Views of Middle AgesSutor ne supra crepidam. A cobbler should stick to his last (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 35. 36. 85). Your father was a shoemaker, so…
InAge of AwarenessbyFrank Breslin·Mar 24, 2024The Romans on Survival: Part 2 Different Views of HistoryDon’t aspire to a position “above your station.”
Frank Breslin·Sep 24, 2023The Romans on Survival: Part 2Sutor ne supra crepidam. A cobbler should stick to his last (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 35. 36. 85). Your father was a shoemaker, so…
Brad Roth·Jun 30, 2023Gauss and von HumboldtRegular readers of this blog may recall that over the last few years I’ve been reading Will and Ariel Durant’s magnificent The Story of…