This week on the blog: I discuss how my study of ancient history - and in particular the ways in which ancient self-governing communities collapse into self-destructive internal violence - informs my role as a citizen in a republic:https://acoup.blog/2020/10/30/fireside-friday-october-30-2020/ …
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It is my first time by the Fireside, true. I appreciate this self-deprecating quality about the pic. Which made me laugh. Does the author rejoice in a muffled giggle after he exhibits a visual joke, or not?
Well, the caption on the very first fireside picture read, "Yes, that is me. Yes, that is actually how I look. I’m sorry too." So yes, I take some humor from it.
