
Mary Beard: “Learning to think should be destabilising”
The historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”.
ByThe historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”.
ByThe playful, unpredictable poet knows she is an outsider entering a male-dominated corpus.
ByStudying classics has many values, not least helping you spot when charlatan politicians cover their deficiencies with Cicero quotes.
ByImpressions on re-watching Martin Scorsese’s classic 1976 film.
ByThe PM is selling a version of history that doesn’t exist, a world where the West equals good and immigrants…
ByIt’s time we recognised that Quentin Tarantino’s much-lauded movie is about nothing, says nothing and makes you feel nothing.
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