As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of ...
Athens and Sparta represented for classical thinkers distinct and opposing regimes. Democratic Athens took pride in its freedom, openness, and accomplishments in the arts and philosophy. Oligarchic ...
What drove the Ancient Greeks to fight wars, thousands of years ago? The answer may surprise you, because what we consider “good” and selfless reasons to fight paradoxically led to more wars than the ...
No, Mr. President, Section 122 Tariffs Won’t Work Either From Trump’s Warp Speed to the FDA’s Warp Stall Audio By Carbonatix The misery of war. EDITOR’S NOTE: Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book, A War ...
Recently, in the article we devoted to the Spartan king Agesilaus II, we explained the context in which he had to ascend the ...
Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...