(For anyone who thinks I'm picking on classics, I feel the same way about Lincoln biographies. We did good work there; high fives all around. Now we move on.)
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There are plenty of Greek style tragedies still unfolding
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You mean soap operas, we need to move on.
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ah, yes. humanities students, those stalwart bastions of technical genius, who have both the aptitude and the motivation to pursue physics careers.
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When there is no more history, it will be time to start eliminating historical subjects from the curriculum. Until then, there is nowhere near enough. Some of your own excellent essays are in part about the huge gaps in historical knowledge esp in tech
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Co-sign David's point. Intellectual debate over the meaning of our past is important to our future: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/30/mary-beard-the-cult-of … Moreover, these departments keep alive intellectual traditions going back centuries: http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/the-truth-in-conservatism/ …
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My question is more along the lines of how much scholarship you can squeeze out of a limited quantity of source material. We've been working this vein of ore for millennia.
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