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Come learn with us! We teach Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Old English in active ways—you can speak and listen and read them like they’re living languages.
Link 👇
This is an invaluable thread, and follow
@theancientlang
for the great work Ryan and others are doing there teaching ancient Greek and Latin in a truly exemplary way
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When Solzhenitsyn came to the US as a Soviet exile he was a celebrity dissident. The Harvard Address was his first major public appearance. People were excited to hear the great dissident speak.
They were very disappointed—even angry.
The most famous commencement speech of the entire 20th century took place at Harvard University in 1978.
The speaker, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, was in exile from the Soviet Union.
In his speech Solzhenitsyn gave a dire warning to the West.
22 chilling quotes from his speech🧵
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The distinguishing mark of the west, in Solzhenitsyn’s mind, was the decline of courage. This was the result of the functional atheism at the heart of liberalism and capitalism—a frightening convergence of capitalist and communist.
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Rather than denounce communism, Solzhenitsyn used the commencement speech to point out the soul sickness of the capitalist west, a sickness similar in kind to that in the communist east.
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One particularly galling aspect to his listeners: He saw the American defeat in Vietnam as tragic and shameful, engineered by an interfering and pernicious media class.
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Two years after the speech, the
@EPPCdc
put out a great book that includes the text of the address itself as well as a sampling of the befuddled and angry press responses that followed both immediately afterwards and a bit later after the fact.
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A young Charles Kesler, then a grad student at Harvard under Harvey Mansfield, wrote a response (also in National Review) that was much more complimentary of Solzhenitsyn. The young Straussian identified the Russian as—quelle surprise!—a classical political philosopher:
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The National Review offered a somewhat trifling six-point refutation of the speech including this skeptical rhetorical question (one in which I think Solzhenitsyn, pace NR, has been completely vindicated)
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A sampling of some of the responses:
The NYT called Solzhenitsyn a zealot who was “calling up a holy war.”
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The Washington Star criticized Solzhenitsyn for dark “obsessions” and for being full of “exaggerations.”
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There is only ONE French Huguenot church in America. Here it is.
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Arthur Schlesinger, in WaPo, lectured Solzhenitsyn for the crime of believing in and advocating for absolute truth:
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“If prophecy is one Christian virtue, humility is another. Knowing the crimes committed in the name of a single Truth, Americans prefer to keep their ears open to a multitude of competing lowercase truths.”
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Other contributors: George Will, Harold Berman, Michael Novak, Richard Pipes. It’s an interesting volume—grateful that EPPC put it together back in 1980.
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Over
@theancientlang
, we did a podcast episode about the speech awhile back. Listen—if you dare! (I mention a connection to the world’s evilest man, Vladimir Putin.)
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Here’s an Amazon link to the EPPC book. Not sure if there is a cheaper, newer edition.
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Thanks to
@JeremyTate41
for doing a thread highlighting the great man and his powerful speech!
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@MazMHussain
Although the study of ruins had precedent in the Renaissance. The humanist Aeneas Silvius became pope in 1458 and established excommunication as the penalty for anyone who damaged ruins in or around Rome
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@ItsBCJim
Someone needs to make an edit of kangaroos fighting put to “Come Out You Black and Tans”
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Two misconceptions I address in this
@AmReformer
essay:
1. Classical education is a retrieval of the medieval (much more of a retrieval of Renaissance humanism)
2. Renaissance humanism was anti-Christian (it was a defense of Christendom)
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@lmrwanda
Exactly. Lots of people could have developed steam engines. It wasn’t until the English had cut down all their trees, and dug all the surface coal out of the ground, and needed to pump water out of the ground to get deeper coal that they made them.
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They switched from a French to an English liturgy in the mid-19th century.
Apparently many US presidents have Huguenot blood!?
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"Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely" - Wilfred McClay today at the
@GreatHeartsAcad
conference. Maybe you like,
@KingBolingbroke
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A fun little booklet written by
@colingorrie
that synthesizes linguistics, second language acquisition theory, and lots of Colin’s language classroom experience as both student and teacher. Free for
@A_C_C_S
attendees.
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@FistedFoucault
A society losing the desire to create life is a spiritual sickness—the government proffering economic incentives is *evidence* of the sickness not its solution. Only one successful national fertility program so far, and it’s religious:
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Very pumped to read. I asked
@KingBolingbroke
what to read if I really wanted to know Shakespeare and this is what he recommended.
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Here we go
@HammillRyan
Closest analogue I can think of would be J.B. Bury’s History of Greece to the Death of Alexander
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“Humanities apologetics that avoid vouching for 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 are doomed to failure.” -
@ProfEricAdler
in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴
Adler’s argument is similar to the
@JRob1572
polemic against…
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1. Solzhenitsyn is a perennial type among Russian conservatives, slavophiles in particular, and late 19th century versions especially
2. His speech bears particular resemblance to Constantine Pobedonostsev’s “Reflections of a Russian Statesman”
3. This is not great
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You join a Signal chat for the memes. You get bros who teach you to work on your HVAC.
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@Dru_Johnson
@TheKingsCollege
I bought a Loeb edition of Aristotle’s Politics around that time and look what I discovered when I opened it
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Amendment needed: Charleston’s French Huguenot Church on notice!
There is also a Huguenot congregation in NYC that is part of The Episcopal Church—therein hangs a tale.
There is only ONE French Huguenot church in America. Here it is.
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@aaron_renn
I don’t think those are really brutalist. “Brutalism” doesn’t really mean “modern” or “brutal” but refers to “béton brut,” i.e. “raw concrete.” In other words, buildings constructed in unfinished concrete, like these.
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Plutarch’s life of Theseus contains a great illustration of the first “revolution” Coulanges chronicles: politically independent families are joined in a unified city
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@John_Barach
This is a good time to remember the words of John Calvin: those persons are superstitious, who do not venture to borrow anything from heathen authors. All truth is from God; and consequently…
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One of the concerns raised about the opening salvo
@agoge_classical
was: politics is too lowly a goal for education.
Classical schools should educate for Heaven, not Washington.
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An amazing speech. Worth learning Latin just to be able to read it (and Catiline’s pre-battle pump-up address as well).
Julius Caesar was Rome's 2nd greatest orator
(after Cicero)
Here are 9 lessons from a brilliant early speech of his,
that made his career take off.
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Having a grand time relearning the basics of Ancient Greek with tools
@JRob1572
and
@theancientlang
colleagues have been making. Incredible stuff. Makes me wish I’d just waited to start till now.
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@theistinthought
There’s a great episode of Firing Line in which Borges laments that his native language is Spanish—he wishes it were English. Better, he says, for poetry.
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"Few humanities professors would deem themselves humanists... By comparison, one would be hard pressed to find professors of the so-called hard sciences who don’t self-identify as scientists." -
@ProfEricAdler
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@Warner1776
I think because prose is an invention that reflects the technology of writing. You develop prose because you possess the ability to write.
Written poetry is—at first—an attempt to record “song,” broadly construed. Oral traditions of storytelling have a poetic character.
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I am greatly indebted to
@JamesWHankins1
book “Virtue Politics” which anyone interested in Renaissance humanism should go read.
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@zenahitz
I agree, and this gives them an additional layer of difficulty. Because we (think) we are familiar with them, a lazy read-through can gloss over the weird parts because we think we know the story already. You have to fight yourself a bit.
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I’ve been reading Sallust’s Catilinarian Conspiracy while listening to
@costofglory
mini-series on Catiline. 10/10, would recommend.
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It is our hope, at Agoge, that the classical education movement will do for America what Sparta did for Greece.
Agoge is animated by the understanding that education is inherently political. By “political” we mean something broader than partisan politics.
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Desire nothing as much as glory and honor!
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I’ve been listening to the free sample of Castellio’s translation of Luke and loving it. The recitation is so good—almost musical. Will be paying for full-access…
You learn Latin from authors. This is why we created Latinitium and why Legentibus exists.
🔗
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On my misadventures as a language learner, where that’s taken me, and where
@theancientlang
is headed. Thanks to
@AndrewJCuff
and
@beckandstone
for the opportunity to share!
There's also a stellar piece from
@HammillRyan
about how classical and ancient language pedagogy is evolving at
@theancientlang
. Why is Latin "in decline" (nota risum)? And how can we fix it? /3
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A bunch of guys from my high school class enlisted in the Marines right after graduation, kind of unusual for an affluent Bay Area suburb.
Josh Corral never made it back. He died in 2011, killed by an IED in Afghanistan.
RIP Chachi. Godspeed. ✝️🇺🇸
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Michael Novak wrote a long, appreciative essay for the
@EPPCdc
Harvard Address volume. He called Solzhenitsyn’s speech “the most important religious document of our time.”
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Declaring a general amnesty: all remaining unread emails from 2022 are being marked “read”
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You think you’re doing classical education. You are a baby. Look at this:
Substitute teaching 1st grade today. Will be going over Irenaeus.
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I love Boeing. I thank God every time I get on a flight and see it’s a Boeing. I would never say anything bad about Boeing.
It looks like Boeing hit squad is the most efficient team they have
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@ArmandDAngour
As
@johnbyronkuhner
satirized these vandals: “Really, you thought those ancients could create beautiful things? No, we will show you that they had no artistic taste whatsoever.”
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@John_Barach
if wicked men have said anything that is true and just, we ought not to reject it; for it has come from God.
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A spirit of piety and reverence broke out at The New Thinkery in this interesting episode on Augustine—great discussion of City of God and Confessions, as well as the Catholic interest in Strauss.
They even made some—tasteful—jokes!
🚨🚨🧨🏙️👴✝️🧨🚨🚨
Latest episode! Eminent scholar Doug Kries of
@GonzagaCAS
on Augustine's City of God and Democracy!
Also, a few remarks about Ernest Fortin
Listen now!
🎧👂📱
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Looking for a talented illustrator to work with. I’d very much appreciate your help spreading the word.
Are you an artist? 🎨
Yes, ALI is an online school - but we are also constantly building tools and curricula. Most of that has remained internal to our classes and students.
But pretty soon, some of that work will break containment.
Which brings us to the art...
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Good reason to become Catholic—you can steal peoples stuff
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Stories contrived for language-learning purposes can get by with boring plots and flat characters because of the inherent thrill of learning a new language.
But what
@colingorrie
asks is: why not write a fun story with memorable and complex characters?
We are bringing Ōsweald Bera to the world this fall of 2024.
Congratulations to
@colingorrie
on completing an amazing project!
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@MikeySante58410
@pegobry_en
@RobHarbin8
The conflict between “Ecclesia” (the Church) and “Synagoga” (the Synagogue) was a commonplace of high medieval French art, and I believe Notre Dame had (still has?) reliefs illustrating this.
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Very pumped to have Luke doing live teaching again!
Does meter scare you? Wish you could recite Latin poetry better?
Luke is here to help. Come join us this spring for some introductory Latin meter and recitation workshops!
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There is a very real sense, humiliating as it may seem, in which what we generally venture to call *our* feelings are really Shakespeare’s ‘meaning’.
-Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction
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Knocking Scripture off its pedestal provides a crucial insight into understanding Milton’s intentions for his own poem.
—
@EssayDance
, in
@AdFontesJournal
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I love talking with Tim
For 10 straight years, Tim Griffith spoke in Latin to his children exclusively.
He has been a pioneer of comprehensible input-based approaches to language teaching in the Classical Christian Education movement.
ALI would not exist in its current form without him.
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American Orpheus
Beauty arrests us, and for a pause we are taken out of ourselves, sometimes lost in the enchantment of something marvellous before us. -William Desmond
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When you meet Vladimir you encounter a human type you would have previously thought confined to the tales told by the mythmakers of antiquity
I'll say it again for those who haven't heard of him yet: The man is a genius!
I am not saying this lightly: If you are up for some *fine* spoken Ancient Greek, you MUST take a look at this‼️
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@jacquesderridad
The Serbians I know think nothing is funnier than when small children say extremely vulgar things
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They’re everywhere!
@HammillRyan
I really really love that one in Charleston. Easy to want it to be THE only one, but we got a good one in Virginia near Richmond.
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You were wondering what the weather was like in late April 2014, right?
In all seriousness, very nice retrospective—I love learning from and collaborating with this army of friends.
The
@DavenantInst
started, like the classic meme, with someone being wrong on the internet. That someone was me.
In honor of our 10th anniversary tomorrow, for the first time I'm sharing the whole crazy story of how God built this amazing ministry.
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Like Colin, I’ve found
@aaron_renn
’s “three worlds” hypothesis to be helpful both for thinking theoretically about Christianity in America as well as applicable to everyday life.
Here Colin deals with the positive, neutral, and negative worlds Renn proposes, but adds a fourth:
Aaron Renn’s book has further convinced me of the importance of the work we are doing at the Davenant Institute. Today I wrote my thoughts up for Ad Fontes.
@aaron_renn
@DavenantInst
@AdFontesJournal
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