Curtis Dozier
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Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
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My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Agree with
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the proposed UKIP logo looks familiar. A Nazi cross with a shield and spear? Goebbels said "In Sparta I feel I am in a German city."
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Really need to get back to working on my series on Elon Musk at Pharos
pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/01/31/e...
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6 days ago
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I've "known" Angelo for a long time on social media and it was great to finally connect with him about my book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate."
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"Discourse and policy that assert loudly the low value of certain kinds of literate capacity may be indicating, by their vociferousness, those capacities that are (and are recognized by those in power to be) of the highest potential value." On AI & Roman dependence on slaves for literary production
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9 days ago
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reposted by
Curtis Dozier
Lyra Monteiro
10 days ago
Applications are not yet open for the "Racing the Classics" fellowship for next year, but if anyone at
#AIASCS2026
#AIASCS
who would like to learn more about it, I'm here and, as an associate convener, am eager to talk with folks who are considering applying!
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Thanks to
@antiquitypod.bsky.social
for the invitation to talk about my new book, "The White Pedestal" on white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity. Great conversation!
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11 days ago
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LOL as I discuss in my new book "The White Pedestal" (out today!) Plato is a great author to read (uncritically) if you want to promote racial essentialism, xenophobia, eugenics, naturalness of hierarchy, so much more.
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Chris Lilley 🇵🇸🇺🇦
12 days ago
"Greco-Roman antiquity's reputation as a high point in European history has eclipsed the fact that some of the most widely admired figures in ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists share" (3).
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Thanks to
@mythsbaby.bsky.social
for a great conversation about my new book "The White Pedestal" on Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Nationalism, both out today!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Conversations: White Ain't Right, How White Supremacy Uses Classics to Defend Bigotry with Curtis Dozier
Podcast Episode · Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean · 01/06/2026 · 1h 26m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-white-aint-right-how-white-supremacy/id1264449047?i=1000743939692
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It's because very few places in the US have actually been willing to do what is needed to reduce ped deaths. "We fail to act because we are terrified of a lost parking space, a slightly lower level of service, a few seconds added to a car trip."
tooledesign.com/insights/202...
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27 days ago
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I confess I've always used Rick Steves' books (never led me wrong), and I confess I've always been a little embarrassed about that in the snob circles I'm in, but no more (still deeply embarrassed that we as a wealthy society leave it to people like Rick Steves to do this though)
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28 days ago
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In *The White Pedestal* I'm trying to fill in a part of this, how white nationalist intellectuals use the public's respect for GrecoRoman antiquity to make their ideas seem respectable, desirable, & inevitable. It's only one piece of their rhetorical toolbox but its representative of a major tactic
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I'm not a car guy but I've been reading CR for a long time and Jeep is their evergreen punching bag not just on reliability but everything else too so for Tesla to come in lower is really saying something
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about 1 month ago
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Kahlil Greene interviewed me last week on "History Can't Hide" about my forthcoming book on white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity. The video is available at his Substack:
historycanthide.substack.com/p/why-are-wh...
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Why are White Nationalists obsessed with Ancient Greece and Rome!?
A recording from Kahlil Greene's live video
https://historycanthide.substack.com/p/why-are-white-nationalists-obsessed
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@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
I know someone at Helios and confirmed that the Children's Illustrated Clausewitz is still in print and available at their site! (including reasonable US shipping). Their books are beautiful!
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about 2 months ago
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I def want people to know about this campaign but I'm also trying to figure out the Medusa reference. The idea is Medusa=death? It's reasonable! But it reminds what a bubble I'm in where Medusa more often than not represents how patriarchy monsterifies women and perpetuates misogynist violence
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Not the kind of thread you "heart" but worth a read. The SC tax on Black workers reminds me of the taxes ancient Athens ("birthplace of democracy") levied on foreigners just to live there, which the white nationalists I write about cite to argue that racist hierarchy is compatible with democracy
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about 2 months ago
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Readers of Pharos will recognize many of the white nationalists who receive laudatory treatment on Elon Musk's new Grokipedia 1/
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More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by
@drhelenroche.bsky.social
and
@denisemccoskey.bsky.social
, is now available for pre-order from
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/abusing-a...
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Alice Wong spoke at Vassar two years ago. Amazing, galvanizing woman
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2 months ago
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Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me
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This is the same Megyn Kelly who, when she claimed that America has become as degenerate as the Roman Empire, gave as an example that Americans are trying to "normalize pedophilia."
pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/11/12/m...
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2 months ago
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A lot of ancient sources blame the fall of Rome on things like sexual deviance and erosion of traditional morals. Those same sources were written by ideologues trying to scare people for political gain. Sound familiar? My latest for Pharos:
pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/11/12/m...
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UK Readers! (and Europe)
@yalebooks.bsky.social
will have "The White Pedestal" ready to ship in February 2026!
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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2 months ago
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Thanks to
@mmfa.bsky.social
for highlighting more "Fall of Rome" fear mongering -- this time in a transphobic segment -- on the podcast of a major right wing media figure. I wrote about it on Pharos
pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/11/12/m...
2 months ago
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I have a chapter on white nationalism in this but the volume's real impact will be demonstrating the relevance of "race" for the study of the ancient past. W/
@katherineharloe.bsky.social
@kataplexis.bsky.social
@platanoclassics.bsky.social
@twhittermarsh.bsky.social
@aerl.bsky.social
& many others
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2 months ago
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This is from 10 days ago but it's great to see Rome used for laughs instead of fascism.
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2 months ago
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Does anyone want an out of date hot take about womens professional cycling? I'm just obsessing over this for some reason. I finally watched Stage 1 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes. Ferrand-Prévot broke away maybe 500m from the finish. It looked like she would win but then she started fading. 1/
2 months ago
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"'Critics say' is the tell...if you have enough money to get somebody to produce a white paper for you...[then,] no matter how unhinged the position you’ve taken...that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times."
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
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Bannon must have been excited to get an award with a Latin name (Bellator) from a right wing org that uses a classical helmet as its symbol and that offers fellowships to train "public policy warriors" with Latin names like "Magnus" "Intrepidus" and "Legatum".
pharos.vassarspaces.net/2022/12/19/s...
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Musk — at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives — is still on about the "suicidal empathy" of "Western Civilization," talking points reminiscent of those of notorious antisemites, race pseudo-scientists, and white supremacists
pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/04/25/e...
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Don't Forget the Roman Empire!
pharos.vassarspaces.net/2018/02/02/f...
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We consulted a (print) dictionary on a point of pronunciation and, my pronunciation having been deemed more regular, my 10yo asked "but isn't the dictionary's determination only the judgement of the maker of the dictionary?" and at first I was proud and then I wondered if this is why we have Trump
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This was true in the local elections here: conditions were bad for republican incumbents, yes, but also we had better people running than in many past years
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I care so much! Keep posting these stories!
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2 months ago
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Don't forget the little people: huge night for Dems in NY's Dutchess County, including crushing a terrible incumbent county court judge and flipping the county legislature. Love to see these downballot wins from across the nation!
midhudsonnews.com/2025/11/05/d...
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Dutchess Dems win big across the county - Mid Hudson News
POUGHKEEPSIE – Democrats in Dutchess County were the big winners Tuesday night, including keeping the comptroller seat, defeating an incumbent Republican county court judge, and flipping the county le...
https://midhudsonnews.com/2025/11/05/dutchess-dems-win-big-across-the-county-2/
2 months ago
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if one forgets to check the rotation direction of a bike tire when replacing it, they must put it on the wrong way even though you would think they had a 50/50 chance of doing it right
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"The report has no answer to the media ownership problem. It doesn’t even raise it as a question. It includes pages upon pages bemoaning the Democratic Party’s messaging woes, without ever considering that the problem might be that its opponents have access to much larger megaphones."
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3 months ago
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When they say "difference divides people" like it's a fact, recognize it instead as an argument, which they are making because they are afraid of what would happen if people collaborated and showed solidarity across difference
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3 months ago
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This was a no-brainer to pre-order for me. Tara is such a perceptive reader of ancient culture with such an acute sense of why it all matters. Gonna be 🔥. And of course this topic matters more than ever in an age of restriction, censorship, and violence around reproduction
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3 months ago
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I might say, the best preserved and most studied parts of Greco-Roman antiquity were largely reactionary and authoritarian (which is why they are the best preserved and most studied)
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3 months ago
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Thanks to
@emilyhanscam.bsky.social
for the invitation to review "Classical Controversies" for
@traj-journal.bsky.social
. I took the opportunity to reflect on how, reviewing in 2025, some themes/emphases resound differently from when the book came out in 2022.
traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
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This Friday, conference in Valencia Spain on Antiquity and the Extreme Right in Europe and the US in the 21st century, hosted by
@anihoproject.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Today I'm speaking at
@birthingthenation.bsky.social
about how mass murderers use GrecoRoman antiquity to ennoble their violence. Part of the picture is that ancient violence is so sanitized/idealized in mainstream representations of it. This book tells part of the story of how that came to be.
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I spoke recently on Greco-Roman women in white nationalist thought and a smart grad student pointed out they admire only on ideal/unreal women, because that's how misogyny works. So this conference on "subversive motherhood" is welcome, w/ several papers on historical women
tinyurl.com/4bhbyw4r
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https://eugesta-recherche.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/eugesta-recherche/pdf/eugesta_gender_studies_classical_scholarship/Program-A3-eugesta-workshop-subversive-motherhood-12-14-november-2025.pdf
3 months ago
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reposted by
Curtis Dozier
Jack McGovan
3 months ago
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/millionaire-tax-that-inspired-mamdani-fuels-5-7-billion-haul-in-massachusetts?embedded-checkout=true
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I'm fanboying a lot lately, first
@shaneburley.bsky.social
blurbs my book on white nationalism and classics (see pins), then
@wendling.bsky.social
calls to talk about Western Civilization, now I see I'm on a panel with
@areidross.bsky.social
at the
@birthingthenation.bsky.social
conference this week
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@wendling.bsky.social
made a "Mini-Guide" to discourse about "Western Civilization" out of conversations he had with me and others for an episode of the BBC's AntiSocial about far right backlash against an art exhibition at Canterbury Cathedral
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My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Last week I got to talk to
@wendling.bsky.social
, a journalist I've admired for a long time, about the appeal of "Western Civilization" to far right politics as part of a BBC show on backlash against Canterbury Cathedral's current art exhibition.
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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