Met an interesting local artist, @grammaticas.bsky.social, at a talk I gave last night about "The White Pedestal." She has a post on her substack that defamiliarizes some of the women we see in sculpture (e.g. around NYC) by telling their stories. grammaticas.substack.com/p/5-of-monum...

I went on @thisguysucked.com expecting fun snark and hot takes. It did not disappoint, but even better was seeing how deeply @ceaubin.com cares about history. She's a hater, yes, but what she's really focused on is how the significance we give history depends on the way we study it. Great show

I've admired @kevinsolez.bsky.social since he contributed expertise on Homer to Pharos when we were writing about the casting of David Gyasi to play Achilles. He's now hosting expert guests, including @sentantiq.bsky.social, at his "Homer Hotline" on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C30u...

My review essay on recent and forthcoming work by scholars whose earlier work inspired and informed "The White Pedestal" is out in this week's Pasts Imperfect. Very pleased to have it appear in a publication where "antiquity" means much more than Greece and Rome

You guys I am such a sucker for the chosen one trope so my judgment may be clouded but my daughter and I just finished She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and that show is so good. And, it's hard not to think of the people standing up to ICE violence www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACsi...

My teacher the classical scholar Jim Tatum died about a week ago. I wrote a reminiscence substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wrote about the Texas A&M Plato case for @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social ... when they say they're going to offer many courses on Plato this term and in the future, I believe them

ResDiff, now in its 7th (!) year is always such a great gathering and I've often thought the stated focus on inequity in Classics, while certainly an impt link between presentations, somewhat understates the range of types of interventions you'll hear. Honored to be part of yet another great lineup

Historians of ancient slavery often turn to narratives of more recently enslaved people to fill in gaps/confirm implications in fragmentary ancient evidence. This seems like an example where ancient sources, which explicitly describe the sexual exploitation of enslaved men, illuminate the modern

"The White Pedestal" quoted at @literaryhub.bsky.social on why contemporary fascism fetishizes the classics

Latinists unite

Yes there's something unhinged about Rufo criticizing Scandinavians but it also repackages the White Nationalist thinking that the (allegedly) superior empathy/liberality of white ppl leads to their extinction. All part of the "which way western man" rhetoric pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/04/25/e...

If you're curious about my work on white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity there's now an excerpt at @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social. If it speaks to you you can use promo code AIA26 for 30% off and free shipping from @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I've admired @areidross.bsky.social and his "Against the Fascist Creep" for a long time so it was a real honor to talk with him for the @franetwork.bsky.social podcast "Right Rising" about "The White Pedestal."

I've been wondering about how to show solidarity against ICE and I just reposted (doesn't allow quote posts) a guy who's part of the collective that sends 3D printed whistles to areas under siege. Apparently Megyn Kelly is annoyed and I was like well then, take my money. See his linktree to help!

@karenhunter.bsky.social interviewed me on her @urbanviewradio.bsky.social program a couple weeks ago and has now put the video on youtube. Great, challenging interview about "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_s...

The only thing to add is that if you have a red senator, by calling, you show solidarity with the people who have been laboring for change in your state and that matters

I can't decide if (one of) my biggest vice(s) has been vindicated or if you can prove anything if you do it right lifehacker.com/health/diet-...

New interview out about "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate." This time with Sascha Lilly on @kpfa.org g 's "Against the Grain." kpfa.org/episode/agai...

My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Agree with @nevillemorley.bsky.social 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."

Really need to get back to working on my series on Elon Musk at Pharos pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/01/31/e...

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."

"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

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!

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!

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.

"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).

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...

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...

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)

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

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

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...

@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!

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

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

Readers of Pharos will recognize many of the white nationalists who receive laudatory treatment on Elon Musk's new Grokipedia 1/

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...

Alice Wong spoke at Vassar two years ago. Amazing, galvanizing woman

Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me

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...

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...

UK Readers! (and Europe) @yalebooks.bsky.social will have "The White Pedestal" ready to ship in February 2026! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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...

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

This is from 10 days ago but it's great to see Rome used for laughs instead of fascism.

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/

"'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...