Mark Safranski is hosting a roundtable on Thucydides at Zenpundit. Here is my first contribution. Many others are showing up. 

My approach to Thucydides, or any other old book, is almost diametrically opposite to Tanner Greer’s. It is indeed fascinating to contemplate how people thought in another time, the differences from today’s thinking, to put oneself in the mind of another. I try to do all those things from time to time, but my emphasis is often different. Read More

Next week, I will join a distinguished group of commentators in working through Thucydides’s The Peloponnesian War. The discussion will take place at Zenpundit, but I may post some of my thoughts here. Check it out and join in the comments!