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784 Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King (with William O. Stephens)

In the fourth century B.C., Plato famously posited a philosopher-king as the ideal ruler for his imagined Republic. Five hundred years later, the Roman Empire was led by Marcus Aurelius, the man often viewed as the best example of this Platonic ideal. In this episode, Jacke talks ...  Show more

783 Southern Imagining (with Elleke Boehmer) | My Last Book with John McMurtrie

The world has a northern bias: our politics, culture, and literature all tend to view the northern viewpoint as the default position, leaving the far southern latitudes (Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and Southern Africa among others), as a faraway land full of strangeness. B ...  Show more

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