This is a basically sensible reading of Thucydides, in contrast to crude Realism or the ‘Thucydides Trap’ - but it’s completely unoriginal, either reinventing the wheel or quietly repackaging the ideas of a number of scholars as its own insights.https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1184423781059780609 …
Granted, it's quite difficult to have an original interpretation of a 2,400+ year old book.
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Not at all; it’s a complex and ambiguous work, and new interpretations are coming along all the time. The idea of publishing a NYT opinion piece on it is presumably the implication that it offers a new reading. It just doesn’t.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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