New Humanists
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Protestant and Catholic Culture | Episode CXII
Since the time of the Reformation, England has had an established Church alongside a rich variety of Protestant Dissenters as well as a group of Roman Catholic hold-outs. The country exemplifies the tense but productive diversity in "sect and c...
BONUS: Who Caused the Peloponnesian War?
After the simmering conflict between Athens and its allies squaring up against Sparta and its allies, often referred to as the "First Peloponnesian War," the warring parties entered into a treaty known as the "Thirty Years' Peace." But well bef...
Nationalism and High Culture | Episode CXI
T.S. Eliot argues that cultural vitality depends in part upon a balance of unity and diversity in a nation with respect to its various regions. But this raises all sorts of questions: What distinguishes a nation from a region? Isn't a nation ju...
BONUS: A Quarrel in a Far-Away Country
Everyone knows Sparta, as well as its ally - the leading naval power of the Peloponnesian League - Corinth. But what about Corinth's colony to the northwestwest, on the eastern shore of the Ionian Gulf, Corcyra? How about Corcyra's colony, even...