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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…

May 20, 2023

Which Types of Students Feel Uncomfortable in Class Discussions?

May 20, 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…

Jan 19, 2023

Was Athenian Democracy Dependent on Slavery?

Jan 19, 2023

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…

Feb 10, 2022

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

Feb 10, 2022

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…

Jul 25, 2021

Classics Before the Enlightenment (Long Version)

Jul 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…

Apr 25, 2021

Is Democracy Western? The Case of Sortition

Apr 25, 2021

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…

Jan 12, 2020

Popper and Plato: A Response to David J. Riesbeck

Jan 12, 2020

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…

Jun 16, 2019

The Future of our Ancient Past (Long version)

Jun 16, 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…

Apr 5, 2019

Apr 5, 2019

James Kierstead

James Kierstead

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

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