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eburke

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eburke

@JamesWHankins1

Stubborn defender of the Four Olds. 四舊 goldenthread.substack.com jameshankins.org

Joined January 2020

eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Jul 17, 2025
My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in 1249 pages, 800 illustrations, most in color, 75 maps, well over a hundred extracts from primary sources, chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume 1, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance, and my oldest friend in academe,
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eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Jul 22, 2025
The University of Florida is the new leader in the study of Western and American civilization. So-called elite universities have abandoned the study of Western culture and politics over the last 25 years, and that betrayal has given other institutions the opportunity to create
news.ufl.edu
UF’s Hamilton School announces major faculty expansion
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eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Dec 26, 2024
Solzhenitsyn? Leszek Kolakowski? Ryzard Legutko? François Furet? Isaiah Berlin? Many more if you count the serious critics of Marxian economics, starting with Mises, Hayek, etc. who devoted serious study to Capital.
Sohrab Ahmari
@SohrabAhmari
Dec 26, 2024
I’m struggling to think of any conservative critic of Marx whose work evinces having read anything by Marx beyond the Manifesto.
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eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Jul 30, 2021
Replying to @Oregonian
Oh, I get it. Two weeks to stop the spread. That'll work.
eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Jul 19, 2025
When people talk about how the use of AI is going to destroy the human mind, I can't help remembering Plato's view that literacy was destroying human memory.
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eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Mar 30, 2025
Every renaissance the West has ever experienced – Theodosian, Carolingian, Ottonian, and the renaissances of the 12th and 15th centuries – all began with a renewed devotion to the beauty and power of Latin.
Learn Latin
@latinedisce
Mar 30, 2025
Learning Latin is the most revolutionary act in the defence of the West. It is a radical affirmation of identity with ultimate origins in Roman and Christian Europe.
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eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Apr 23, 2021
If DC becomes a state, what will be its nickname? E.g. Pennsylvania, the Keystone State. How about "the Deep State"?
eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Sep 4, 2021
Replying to @jennfrey
It would take Socrates about 10 minutes to get cancelled in a modern university.
eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Aug 20, 2025
While editing the I Tatti Library for the last 25 years I discovered to my surprise that it was quite possible to have a PhD in Latin from a top program and not be able to translate an easy Ciceronian Latin text from the Renaissance.
eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Aug 19, 2025
How did we get to the point that learning is not respected in elite universities? Might it have something to do with the trahison des clercs? Oh no, it's nothing WE have done, surely? We haven't done anything to weaken language requirements for PhD degrees for example.
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eburke
@JamesWHankins1
Aug 19, 2025
How did we get to the point that learning is not respected in elite universities? Might it have something to do with the trahison des clercs? Oh no, it's nothing WE have done, surely? We haven't done anything to weaken language requirements for PhD degrees for example.
Zena Hitz
@zenahitz
Aug 18, 2025
I remember attending a party at Chicago where several people were working on the Hittite dictionary. Knowing Greek and Latin was like having taken French in high school. What a godforsaken wreck that university has become.
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