Jan 09, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Hoplite Wars: Part IVa, The Status of Hoplites This is the last part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission) on the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the phalanx formation in which they fought. We’ve spent the las...
Jan 03, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote) Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I’ve made some minor...
Jan 01, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Happy Public Domain Day 2026! Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
Dec 28, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 From sublime spheres to hungry cats, a rundown of the ten most read of what we published this year.
Dec 28, 2025 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Gap Week: December Holidays, 2025 Hey folks! Apologies for this coming out late – alas the pedant household has been struck by a nasty cold that has made keeping up with work this week quite challenging. No post this week, on acco...
Dec 18, 2025 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Intermission: Battle Pulses This week we’re going to take a brief break from our series on hoplites (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) to address a broader question in how we understand the mechanics of warfare with contact weapons, which i...
Dec 13, 2025 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIb: A Phalanx By Any Other Name This is the second half of the third part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phala...
Dec 12, 2025 from Palladium The Obligation to Beauty When the dominant culture abandons cultivating taste and aesthetics through creative excess, they leave open opportunities for once marginal groups to become new elites. The post The Obligation to ...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage Book Notes: The Technological Republic (2025) ALEXANDER KARP AND NICHOLAS ZAMISKA'S The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West may not be the worst book I have read this year, but it is by far the most disa...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Public Domain Review A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style. Iván Moure Pazos tours the psychedelic chambers of...
Dec 10, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) Still lifes by the artist who seemed to bridge expressionism with the baroque.
Dec 05, 2025 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx? This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we looked ...
Dec 05, 2025 from Palladium The Bronze Age of Globalization Continent-spanning supply chains that sustained the advanced technology needed by civilization were set up thousands of years ago and then collapsed. It might happen again. The post The Bronze Age ...
Dec 04, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) Illustrations of Abū Zayd and his adventures in double meaning.
Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) First cloud taxonomer and a poem by Goethe.
Dec 02, 2025 from The Public Domain Review The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Attention.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review “Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) French lithographs of the Eiffel Tower and its environs, in the style of Japanese woodblock prints.
Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private ...
Nov 21, 2025 from Palladium Cathedrals and the Silicon Soul Once a sanctuary for art and invention, Silicon Valley has become co-opted by bureaucracy and disbelief. Its renewal depends on restoring faith in creation itself. The post Cathedrals and the Silic...
