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May 20, 2023

Which Types of Students Feel Uncomfortable in Class Discussions?

In 2021 I was involved, with colleagues in Heterodox New Zealand, in a administering a version of Heterodox Academy’s Campus Expression…

Which Types of Students Feel Uncomfortable in Class Discussions?

James Kierstead

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Jan 19, 2023

Was Athenian Democracy Dependent on Slavery?

Back in November 2021 I published a piece in Areo magazine called ‘Was Athenian Democracy Dependent on Imperialism?’ When I sent the editor…

Was Athenian Democracy Dependent on Slavery?

James Kierstead

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Feb 10, 2022

Democrazia, Ideologia, e il Mondo Antico: Un’intervista a Luciano Canfora

Una dozzina di anni fa, durante un viaggio in Italia, ho preso in mano una storia generale della democrazia scritta da uno studioso…

Democrazia, Ideologia, e il Mondo Antico: Un’intervista a Luciano Canfora

James Kierstead

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Jul 25, 2021

Classics Before the Enlightenment (Long Version)

This is the full, unedited version of a piece that appeared earlier this year on the Heterodox Academy blog. The editor rightly suggested…

Classics Before the Enlightenment (Long Version)

James Kierstead

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Apr 25, 2021

Is Democracy Western? The Case of Sortition

Recently I was asked to review Liliaen Lopez-Rabatel and Yves Sintomer’s edited volume Sortition and Democracy: History, Tools, Theories…

Is Democracy Western? The Case of Sortition

James Kierstead

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Jan 12, 2020

Popper and Plato: A Response to David J. Riesbeck

Soon after my article on Karl Popper and Plato appeared in the Journal of New Zealand Studies last year, David J. Riesbeck posted a…

Popper and Plato: A Response to David J. Riesbeck

James Kierstead

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Jun 16, 2019

The Future of our Ancient Past (Long version)

This is the full, unedited version of a piece that appeared in January this year as part of a series on Western Civ and the classics in…

The Future of our Ancient Past (Long version)

James Kierstead

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Apr 5, 2019

A Reply to Maximus Planudes’ Critique

Some time after I published a piece on white supremacism and Classics, someone going by the name Maximus Planudes posted a response on…

James Kierstead

James Kierstead

Senior Lecturer in Classics, Victoria University of Wellington. Ancient democracy, classical liberalism, Old Comedy.

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