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Massimo’s first review of the year
it was amazing
Kathryn Tempest does an excellent job at exploring the history and the legend of Marcus Junius Brutus, the chief conspirator against Julius Caesar. The period at the end of the Roman Republic is one of the best documented in ancient history, and yet it is still hard to tease fact from both contemporary and posthumous interpretations, so that Brutus can be read in sharply contrasting ways, depending on one’s take on issues such as friendship, auto
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Massimo’s last review of the year
it was amazing
I approached this book with trepidation, given the delicate subject matter. But I was quickly taken by Mounk’s solid research and cogent reasoning. He traces the cultural history of what we today call identity politics, clearly demonstrating that it has nothing to do with Marxism (as some of its critics maintain) and everything to do with postmodernism. Unlike detractors hailing from other quarters of the political spectrum, Mounk makes it clear
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