# ![@JamesWHankins1 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1217836254227726343.png) @JamesWHankins1 eburke

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### Top Social Posts
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"The first Byzantine emigre to teach Greek in the West Leonzio Pilato began his instruction in Florence by opening page one of the Iliad and translating every word into Latin. Didn't work; nobody learned Greek. The second Manuel Chrysoloras gave a brief grammatical instruction (Erotemata which I translate as 'FAQs') then taught easy prose texts like Lucian. He succeeded. Difficult Latin authors are difficult to read. Easy ones are much easier. Who knew 1/2 Difficult Latin authors are difficult to read. Easy ones are much easier. Who knew 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2012452495704867151)  2026-01-17T09:10Z 13K followers, 46.1K engagements


"We may credit the smooth handover of power in Barbados from the British colonial government to majority rule to the common love of cricket and the international success on the pitch of Sir Garfield Sobers. Oyez oyez oyez I am pleased to announce that beginning in June @tunkuv will be writing a more or less quarterly column about cricket for @newcriterion. This will not be your common or garden variety account of googlies swings and spinners but something more existential. Oyez oyez oyez I am pleased to announce that beginning in June @tunkuv will be writing a more or less quarterly column"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2018863175022829953)  2026-02-04T01:44Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"It's hard to commit to years of expensive study in some line of work only to discover there are no jobs for people like you. Conservatives don't major in journalism or obtain PhDs in the humanities and social sciences or become creatives or build non-profits at anywhere the same rates as liberals but then complain that they have less traction and presence than liberals in the opinion-shaping culture. Conservatives don't major in journalism or obtain PhDs in the humanities and social sciences or become creatives or build non-profits at anywhere the same rates as liberals but then complain that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2019493730697326695)  2026-02-05T19:30Z 13K followers, 38.9K engagements


"The British Library used to be that way before the move to Euston Road. I used to enjoy the hum of the hive. The Bibliothque Nationale de France is one of my favourite places to research. It's one of those rare places where the mere act of research feels like a form of quiet worship. You sit beneath those soaring vaults and gilded domes surrounded by centuries of accumulated thought The Bibliothque Nationale de France is one of my favourite places to research. It's one of those rare places where the mere act of research feels like a form of quiet worship. You sit beneath those soaring vaults"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020272914525037042)  2026-02-07T23:06Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"Utterly fascinating. I may have to revise my treatment in The Golden Thread which is based on Vermes (hostile to Xianity) and Meier (Jesuit). I wish Schmidt had discussed the theory that Luke read an Aramaic version of Jewish Antiquities. @ufhamilton https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/josephus-jesus-new-evidence/ https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/josephus-jesus-new-evidence/ https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/josephus-jesus-new-evidence/ https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/josephus-jesus-new-evidence/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020278262040015251)  2026-02-07T23:27Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"They should anyway read Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance." It would teach them about what Americans used to aspire to. Trying to get minimum consensus on a canon of books every American child should read in school is close to impossible. But I completely agree with @Beanie0597. What book do you objectively think every American school child should have to read Trying to get minimum consensus on a canon of books every American child should read in school is close to impossible. But I completely agree with @Beanie0597. What book do you objectively think every American school child should have to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020279348452835830)  2026-02-07T23:31Z 13K followers, 11.5K engagements


"OK so you made me order the book. I want to meet that modest humorous genius of common sense. Reading the memoirs of US Grant after shamefully neglecting to read them possibly because literary types didn't push them on me early in life. 1st impression: No one ever told me he was funny. Some of the driest wit I've encountered in all American prose. The book is grand. Reading the memoirs of US Grant after shamefully neglecting to read them possibly because literary types didn't push them on me early in life. 1st impression: No one ever told me he was funny. Some of the driest wit I've"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020281067694154019)  2026-02-07T23:38Z 13K followers, 13.3K engagements


"The modernist idea the originality is the prime value in art has had the effect that any art created within a tradition is devalued as derivative and uninspired. Michelangelo is 'original'; any artist who seeks to benefit from his innovation in the representation of the human body is a mere imitator. All of Neo-Latin literature no matter how brilliantly written and moving is 'derivative.' Most of Chinese painting after the Song is 'derivative.' Maybe those artists just loved great art of the past and were inspired by their love to continue the tradition. Sir Roger was right - beauty is what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020491943441031384)  2026-02-08T13:36Z 13K followers, 11.7K engagements


"Come admire the fruits of higher education. @peterboghossian encountered one of the most brainwashed students ever captured on camera. This perfectly illustrates the problem at the center of all of this https://t.co/nr9V5bCyVt @peterboghossian encountered one of the most brainwashed students ever captured on camera. This perfectly illustrates the problem at the center of all of this https://t.co/nr9V5bCyVt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020493208074236183)  2026-02-08T13:41Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"A fine geographical representation of how Roman and Christian Roman history underlies modern Europe. Lord give me the confidence of a Romanian geography textbook https://t.co/SPElg9GgSg Lord give me the confidence of a Romanian geography textbook https://t.co/SPElg9GgSg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020496136767959403)  2026-02-08T13:53Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"Yes. Very noticeable still the difference btw Slavs brought into Christendom by the Byzantines and by Latin Christendom. @JamesWHankins1 It's interesting how northern German and Poland were both integrated economically and politically into the Roman world. From the second through the fourth centuries Rome worked to secure political influence and trade links with the people of the southern Baltic. @JamesWHankins1 It's interesting how northern German and Poland were both integrated economically and politically into the Roman world. From the second through the fourth centuries Rome worked to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020901486889198029)  2026-02-09T16:43Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"This was certainly Augustine's view. It is not an article of faith but a matter of fact that Christendom the period of Western history from the 4th to the 17th century was deeply Roman. See Eccentric Culture by Rmi Brague. Excellent review essay of Fimister's book arguing "Romanitas" is a note of the faith: "One may agree with him that the Roman Empire played a providential role in the spread of the Christian faith but nothing in Scripture or Tradition suggests it will play such a role till the Excellent review essay of Fimister's book arguing "Romanitas" is a note of the faith: "One may"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2020974130913476927)  2026-02-09T21:32Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"Well Ok - 'we have nothing to lose but our phones' is a great line. But there is a whole world of beauty connected with the book arts which is waiting to be rediscovered. "To sustain liberal democratic society we must choose to return to shared reality. We have nothing to lose but our smartphones and a lot of reading to catch up on." @WSJFreeEx for @MattHennessey https://t.co/EyzXyy0JmS "To sustain liberal democratic society we must choose to return to shared reality. We have nothing to lose but our smartphones and a lot of reading to catch up on." @WSJFreeEx for @MattHennessey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2021224595441721438)  2026-02-10T14:07Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"The line after Tertullian's 'What has Rome to do with Jerusalem' is "What has the Academy meaning the Platonic Academy to do with the Church.' There is more than one reason why Tertullian is not a saint. @JamesWHankins1 True. Dante would agree as well. Its a sore subject these days but its noticeable that certain popular people prefer to ignore Rome for Athens and Jerusalem. They despise the synthesis of faith and reason @JamesWHankins1 True. Dante would agree as well. Its a sore subject these days but its noticeable that certain popular people prefer to ignore Rome for Athens and Jerusalem."  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2021227817552240781)  2026-02-10T14:20Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"Best analysis I know is Richard Bourke's biography of Burke Empire and Revolution which provides a useful map of 18th c conservatism. How does Burke's Old Whig conservatism relate to Dr. Johnson's Tory inclinations How does Burke's Old Whig conservatism relate to Dr. Johnson's Tory inclinations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2021238930662658471)  2026-02-10T15:04Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"Shamelessly I will say that I talk in The Golden Thread vol. [--] about how the elimination or nationalization of canon law in Protestant countries led to liberalization in at least three areas over which the medieval church had claimed authority: orthodoxy in thought moral regulation of the economy and family law @JamesWHankins1 Do you have a recommended reading list @JamesWHankins1 Do you have a recommended reading list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2021278732879606034)  2026-02-10T17:42Z 13K followers, 11.4K engagements


"All this is true but tight networks can't control everything. Conservatives could get more attention simply by offering large cash prizes commensurable with the Nobel or Pulitzer or McArthur. There are no prizes I know of like that on the right. Big numbers do get the attention of the general public. Also publications on the left like the Atlantic and the New Yorker pay considerably higher fees than most conservative outlets. I don't know of any conservative publishing house that pays big advances for books but my information is spotty. Ditto lecture fees. I think my general impression is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2021443294799049112)  2026-02-11T04:36Z 13K followers, 25.6K engagements


"It would be a graceful act if at least one of the people on the left or right who accused Trump of being a beneficiary of Epstein's 'services' would now apologize. Waiting . https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/10/trump-called-police-two-decades-ago-report-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/10/trump-called-police-two-decades-ago-report-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2021582719214313612)  2026-02-11T13:50Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"Yes this was the original purpose of Erastianism to subject Church law to the authority of the ruler. Henry VIII was the breakout case although lay rulers were chomping at the bridle as early as the 12th century. Sins should be punished by the state not the Church. Also Scandinvia the Palatinate and some cities of Switzerland. @philippilk @JamesWHankins1 Fascinating. So much for Madisonian checks and balances. They may balance organs within the state but once canon law is nationalized there is no rival legal order left to resist the States encroachment into family conscience or education."  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2021717646966919561)  2026-02-11T22:47Z 13K followers, [----] engagements


"Mellon's conversion to political activism has been a huge loss to real humanistic research. https://firstthings.com/classical-renewal-by-research/ I doubt any amount of evidence will change minds but Mellon's hundreds of millions for explicitly progressive activism really puts a damper on the "left wing views just won the battle of ideas" and "reality has a liberal bias" defenses of ideological capture in the humanities. https://t.co/3YpR02IG3n https://firstthings.com/classical-renewal-by-research/ I doubt any amount of evidence will change minds but Mellon's hundreds of millions for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022074092590182783)  2026-02-12T22:23Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm prejudiced as a historian but I'd say we have to start teaching the history and traditions of the West again and put a stop to the West's current mood of self-hatred. We have unilaterally disarmed in the clash of civilizations. @JamesWHankins1 Quite right I doubt non-academics are aware of the movement for 'conscientious engagement' in academic citations. What matters moving forward I do want to ask you @JamesWHankins1 What matters most You have given so much. Today what is most important @JamesWHankins1 Quite right I doubt non-academics are aware of the movement for 'conscientious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2007687790952362454)  2026-01-04T05:37Z 13.1K followers, 19.2M engagements


"Yes. You can found all the conservative civic institutions you want but there have to be people to teach in them. They are in very short supply. The exception being @ufhamilton of course @AuronMacintyre I used to think the problem was "conservative billionaires don't care about culture" but over time realized that the problem is not with capital but with both the supply (creatives) and demand (audience) of culture production. There is tons of money sloshing around with @AuronMacintyre I used to think the problem was "conservative billionaires don't care about culture" but over time realized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2021027287412703554)  2026-02-10T01:03Z 13.1K followers, 32.7K engagements


"Like Western civilization(s) Or military history --which is at least half of human history but the subject is hardly taught in universities. That's one reason history depts have lost men. How about requiring undergrads to study at least one ancient language like classical Chinese Latin Greek Sanskrit Hebrew - langs which open up whole worlds that have been forgotten but are in fact still in the DNA of modern civs There's nothing like knowledge of the past to create respect for it. The sad truth is that respect for tradition has now become increasingly right-coded. But hiring profs who do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022809413141078383)  2026-02-14T23:05Z 13.1K followers, 12K engagements


"Economics and history used to be disciplines filled with conservatives because both have to be in contact with reality in order to withstand criticism. Withstanding empirical criticism used to be and to some extent still is part of their professional training. @JamesWHankins1 The discipline of economics does have many conservatives. I guess Hanania's never met any. Go figure. @JamesWHankins1 The discipline of economics does have many conservatives. I guess Hanania's never met any. Go figure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022814788087099698)  2026-02-14T23:26Z 13.1K followers, 17.2K engagements


"As a missionary religion Islam doesn't spread without an army. Or without immigration from Muslim countries. Unlike Christianity. Islamic activist: We poured millions into spreading Islam in Japan. After six years only one person converted and he wasnt even Japanese. What do the Japanese have that we dont https://t.co/IrhlN53ZKb Islamic activist: We poured millions into spreading Islam in Japan. After six years only one person converted and he wasnt even Japanese. What do the Japanese have that we dont https://t.co/IrhlN53ZKb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022871458762858991)  2026-02-15T03:11Z 13.1K followers, 274.8K engagements


"The red model school is already producing students who can think logically speak and write effectively and who have enough knowledge between the ears to realize when they are being lied to. In other words they are virtuous human beings. The aim of blue model schools is to turn out robots with a uniform belief system operated by agentic AI beamed into their BMIs from the cloud. My instinct is that it will not destroy them so much as complete the bifurcation of blue and red society. The blue system that encompasses [--] percent of the universities you could name will continue churning out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022873723347337577)  2026-02-15T03:20Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Reminds me of Albania after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in [----]. 1/3 of the country picked up and left. In Italy a common word for criminal became 'albanese.' Most Americans still dont fully understand what happened under Biden 8% of Nicaragua entered the US in [--] years. 8% of the entire country. 7% of Cuba. 6% of Haiti. 5% of Honduras. https://t.co/SnDIfMUpYh Most Americans still dont fully understand what happened under Biden 8% of Nicaragua entered the US in [--] years. 8% of the entire country. 7% of Cuba. 6% of Haiti. 5% of Honduras. https://t.co/SnDIfMUpYh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022878163278106808)  2026-02-15T03:38Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The Eastern churches that spread across Asia into India and China were not backed by armies. Armenia converted to Christian without any known involvement of Rome. The earliest Christians in NE Africa were not converted by armies. Ireland was not converted by armies. Christianity came into Gemany a half century before Charlemagne. Much of the Baltic was converted by missionaries before military forces began to be involved. The Franciscans had a string of monasteries along the Silk Road in the 13th century. I could go on. after the Christianization of the Roman Empire and the early medieval"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022884159299961160)  2026-02-15T04:02Z 13.1K followers, 36.2K engagements


"These three are plotting regime change in America. Wondering whether this discussion is protected by the First Amendment. There must be constitutional discussions on similar issues in re: communist parties in America but I don't know anything about them. Would like to know more. Islamic scholars USA There is not enough Muslims in America right now to demand full Sharia Law and replace their secular system we need to gain political power and implement it little by little https://t.co/MOSTb05B8l Islamic scholars USA There is not enough Muslims in America right now to demand full Sharia Law and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2023066644176945223)  2026-02-15T16:07Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm sorry this is simply not true unless you are counting deaths from disease in the course of the Columbian exchange which were not intentionally inflicted. One should also balance negative and positive aspects as in the case of the Roman and Islamic conquests. Episodes of forced conversion are rare in history. Charlemagne started to do this in Saxony but was restrained ultimately by Alcuin and other religious authorities. Same with the Spanish in the new world. @JamesWHankins1 This is atrocious thing for an authority on world history to say. No religion in the world has slaughtered as many"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2023131543288602693)  2026-02-15T20:25Z 13.1K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Clearly. But even the editor of the Oxford History of Islam said that Islamic peoples were living peacefully in the Middle East until attacked by Western colonialist crusaders. It was just Western greed and militarism that launched the Crusades you see. @JamesWHankins1 i had to be very patient in a seminar once when I met someone gushed about how the ottomans never subjected people to Inquisitions like Christians (person did not study anything related to the Islamic world) @JamesWHankins1 i had to be very patient in a seminar once when I met someone gushed about how the ottomans never"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022882120561991888)  2026-02-15T03:54Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@david_m_wagner Thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2023125153668911182)  2026-02-15T19:59Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Bloody Normans. What have the Normans ever done for us Aside that is from the English language Gothic cathedrals naval power impregnable castles chivalry romances . England has become the habitation of outsiders & the dominion of foreigners. Today no Englishman is earl bishop or abbott & newcomers gnaw away at the riches & very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery. William of Malmesbury c.1095c.1143 https://t.co/JdOYFapEJ6 England has become the habitation of outsiders & the dominion of foreigners. Today no Englishman is earl bishop or abbott & newcomers gnaw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022869799982760333)  2026-02-15T03:05Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@EncounterBooks Sounds like we should commission some translations of TGT into European languages. This is one of the best speeches against communism and pro-Western Civilization that Ive ever heard. Marco Rubio is incredible here. I started to pull quotes from it but there are too many. This is a must watch. https://t.co/1RNdhyfIgP This is one of the best speeches against communism and pro-Western Civilization that Ive ever heard. Marco Rubio is incredible here. I started to pull quotes from it but there are too many. This is a must watch. https://t.co/1RNdhyfIgP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2022876852121899375)  2026-02-15T03:33Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Someone or maybe these three gentlemen themselves should do what Hadrian did and organize the succession so that Rome had a golden age under 'the five good emperors.' (Not a comment about regime type to be clear. That's a different discussion.) The top three contenders for the [----] Republican presidential ticket are CatholicsJ.D. Vance Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis. https://t.co/Xcfglk2rkc The top three contenders for the [----] Republican presidential ticket are CatholicsJ.D. Vance Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis. https://t.co/Xcfglk2rkc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2023061523648971231)  2026-02-15T15:47Z 13.1K followers, 26.6K engagements


"Harmony requires a unity behind diversity. Diversity does not make a great nation. A common culture does. Diversity does not make a great nation. A common culture does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2023065244851904830)  2026-02-15T16:01Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"You shouldn't get your history from video games and Hollywood. @JamesWHankins1 Baltic literally the first modern style genocide bruh you're hilarious @JamesWHankins1 Baltic literally the first modern style genocide bruh you're hilarious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2023069216656527621)  2026-02-15T16:17Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"An amazingly prophetic book with priceless portraits of academics sucking up to scientists and the wealthy in a way that is all too familiar today. C.S. Lewis predicted AI in That Hideous Strength. N.I.C.E. thats AI. Fans know what Im talking about. AIs problem is not going to be its inability to do anything but that it ruins everything. It creates a cultural problem. It sterilizes everything and makes nothing https://t.co/AIelvWRgdf C.S. Lewis predicted AI in That Hideous Strength. N.I.C.E. thats AI. Fans know what Im talking about. AIs problem is not going to be its inability to do anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2023431903404294509)  2026-02-16T16:18Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Ancient Christian historians said that Christ chose to be born under the empire for a reason"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1226696603098058752)  2020-02-10T02:37Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"The odd thing about our post-Christian materialism is that we kept the Christian doctrine of the infinite worth of human life but did away with the afterlife. So now every second of the present life is infinitely precious which is not the Christian view"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1241482563803402242)  2020-03-21T21:51Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@JamesDelingpole All I want from this crisis is for people to giggle uncontrollably at unironic uses of the words 'expert' 'the science' and 'scientific models predict'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1257403533361643520)  2020-05-04T20:15Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"My argument that phronesis practical wisdom is and should be superior to scientific expertise and a fortiori to pretended science. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/06/imprudent-expertise https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/06/imprudent-expertise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1260315658593742848)  2020-05-12T21:07Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Suggest all future public statuary should be of abstract figures like Justice Piety Virtue. That way it will be easier to flush out the enemies of the good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1275067899380510721)  2020-06-22T14:07Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"One of the lessons I've learned from Covid-tide is the incredible power of herd behavior on the way even (or especially) the educated think. Catholic conclusion: academics are atheists not because of arguments but because too few are willing to say they are not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1284837368940441600)  2020-07-19T13:07Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The time is now at hand when academics who like to consider themselves progressive must choose whether they want to be liberal or whether they want to be woke. The gap between the two is widening every day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1287777551016955905)  2020-07-27T15:51Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"What's the difference between the civil rights protests of the '60s and the uprisings this summer The civil rights protests were led by Baptist preachers. The uprising this summer is led by 'trained Marxists.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1287822063265296384)  2020-07-27T18:48Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Of babies and bathwater. My defense of the Renaissance against the perversities of woke. https://quillette.com/2020/07/29/cultural-revolution-in-the-renaissance/fbclid=IwAR3oTXD9M4a23ebvfjj8Zvffa3xG8tWCJBewqzFrzU2VrPd3RUzmA4-BId0 https://quillette.com/2020/07/29/cultural-revolution-in-the-renaissance/fbclid=IwAR3oTXD9M4a23ebvfjj8Zvffa3xG8tWCJBewqzFrzU2VrPd3RUzmA4-BId0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1288432718464917504)  2020-07-29T11:14Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@ccpecknold I think public school unions are also underestimating the extent to which they are weakening their own position in the public mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1289384424207876101)  2020-08-01T02:16Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"So governors have absolute power in pandemics to rule by emergency decree except when they don't wanna. Then they just 'disagree'. I strongly disagree with Montgomery Countys decision to mandate the closure of private and parochial schools. My full statement: https://t.co/4pESSu93Tj I strongly disagree with Montgomery Countys decision to mandate the closure of private and parochial schools. My full statement: https://t.co/4pESSu93Tj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1290270176332492800)  2020-08-03T12:55Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@benshapiro The driver didn't have any choice. If he had stopped for a few seconds the car would have been surrounded by rioters windows possibly smashed in. Self-defense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1305680834838626304)  2020-09-15T01:32Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"The left thinks it can use coronavirus to abolish Christmas. More evidence if any was needed that they think they are God. SOBERING: U.S. reports over [------] coronavirus cases in [--] hours for the first time ever. Smashes all time record. We have basically lost this battle. Not sure if Christmas is even saveable unless we do something drastic fast 🔥 #COVID19 https://t.co/mMSO4jkDNO SOBERING: U.S. reports over [------] coronavirus cases in [--] hours for the first time ever. Smashes all time record. We have basically lost this battle. Not sure if Christmas is even saveable unless we do something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1322535055995129857)  2020-10-31T13:45Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Going off Twitter for a while. Sick of politics frankly and want to spend my time reading history. In books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1324187387770134531)  2020-11-05T03:10Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"If DC becomes a state what will be its nickname E.g. Pennsylvania the Keystone State. How about "the Deep State""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1385717524243832833)  2021-04-23T22:09Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"My daily nightmare. Harvard undergrads who have no idea who Cicero was. Not sure of the century of the American revolution. Not sure whether the Reformation comes before or after the Enlightenment. Demosthenes is that a think tank And these are History concentrators"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1414616162445447171)  2021-07-12T16:02Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Governments around the world have claimed absolute power over the lives of citizens for [--] months. They said they were just trying to get us back to normal following science. But now they don't want to give up their power and are ignoring science. Should we be surprised"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1418178885259309060)  2021-07-22T11:59Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The center of Christianity in Japan in the 16th c. and still home to the largest number of Japanese Christians in [----]. I've often wondered why the US chose to drop the bomb on that city of all the cities in Japan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1424733277538164740)  2021-08-09T14:04Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@JeremyTate41 I'm afraid the message it will send to the teachers' unions is that they need to use their political clout to increase govt harassment of home schoolers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1426543140622721028)  2021-08-14T13:56Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@JeremyTate41 @CLT_Exam American Homeschooling Goes Boom by @bariweiss https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/american-homeschooling-goes-boomr=2r6d1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/american-homeschooling-goes-boomr=2r6d1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1435271951216431105)  2021-09-07T16:01Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Virtue vs. Virtue-Signaling https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/10/virtue-vs-virtue-signaling https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/10/virtue-vs-virtue-signaling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1447548936194035712)  2021-10-11T13:05Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Happy Birthday Erasmus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1453739315960238082)  2021-10-28T15:03Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"As luck would have it I'm lecturing on him this week. Students are reading the Confessions. Every year I wonder whether some students can still connect with Augustine. Every year somebody does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1459681910809149443)  2021-11-14T00:37Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@HootenWilson I prefer not to yield to the illiterate view that 'man' can only mean 'a male'. It can mean either 'vir' and 'homo'. Translating to 'person' is often awkward"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1471698370863456258)  2021-12-17T04:26Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Just listened to Handel's Messiah and thought about all the people who want to destroy Western civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1473508719816237061)  2021-12-22T04:20Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"For me this will always be the most beautiful painting of the baptism of Christ in Western art. Piero della Francesca"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1480174012730851339)  2022-01-09T13:45Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Aristotle in Politics [---] says that a tyrant who wishes to control the citizenry should take care to suppress liberal education (paideia). CHE is here quoting (thank God to criticize) the New Yorker. With barbarism like this in the pages of the New Yorker Im glad other magazines are on the rise. What a fall not from grace (that happened long ago) but from class. https://t.co/EtYusQr7ti CHE is here quoting (thank God to criticize) the New Yorker. With barbarism like this in the pages of the New Yorker Im glad other magazines are on the rise. What a fall not from grace (that happened long ago)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1480546641480409095)  2022-01-10T14:26Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements


"The most destructive form of 'structural racism' I see in the US is keeping poor minorities in failing inner city public schools because politicians aren't willing to challenge the teachers' unions who support them. That's pretty 'structural' right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1487841879970492422)  2022-01-30T17:35Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"What happened in Uvalde shows you can't just create protocols and rules for what police should do in an emergency. You have to hire brave and selfless men and women"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1530076630244376576)  2022-05-27T06:41Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"So now I have it in my hot little hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1625240999797854209)  2023-02-13T21:10Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Elite universities have abandoned Western civ and meritocracy which has created a huge intellectual opportunity for conservative institutions that aspire to excellence. Case in point: The amazing team Will Inboden has built in one year at the Hamilton Institute https://news.ufl.edu/2024/05/hamilton-faculty/ https://news.ufl.edu/2024/05/hamilton-faculty/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1794683821599670386)  2024-05-26T10:55Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Private libraries of great families in Byzantium saved ancient Greek literature between the 7th and 9th centuries the most critical period for the survival of classical literature in both east and west. Monasteries and cathedral schools saved the Latin classics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1845077648629723610)  2024-10-12T12:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Proud of my former student Bridge Colby grandson of the former CIA director William E. Colby who lost his job for telling Congress the truth in [----]. Good bloodlines. https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-elbridge-colbyutm_campaign=202411010_nov10dailybriefsubs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=elbridgecolby https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-elbridge-colbyutm_campaign=202411010_nov10dailybriefsubs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=elbridgecolby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1855696680567668873)  2024-11-10T19:39Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Solzhenitsyn Leszek Kolakowski Ryzard Legutko Franois Furet Isaiah Berlin Many more if you count the serious critics of Marxian economics starting with Mises Hayek etc. who devoted serious study to Capital. Im struggling to think of any conservative critic of Marx whose work evinces having read anything by Marx beyond the Manifesto. Im struggling to think of any conservative critic of Marx whose work evinces having read anything by Marx beyond the Manifesto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1872290781647732825)  2024-12-26T14:38Z 13.1K followers, 45.3K engagements


"In forty years of recruiting graduate students at Harvard I learned to look at three things: Can they write (Englisn grad students come tops). Do they know languages (Catholic colleges come tops). Are they hungry for distinction (Asian students come tops). So my ideal grad student is an Asian educated in a Catholic school in the U.K. I don't think this is an accurate description of the American situation the evolution of our educational system and cultural priorities or our traditional strengths. (1/X) https://t.co/WQ7RjziRgz I don't think this is an accurate description of the American"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1872467915150414092)  2024-12-27T02:21Z 13.1K followers, 17.8K engagements


"Just read Mary Beard's nearly fact-free critique of Elon Musk's view of the Roman empire in Spectator. She's right of course that the Romans always worried about manpower shortages. But the real problem in the 5th century (as Synesius pointed out) was that Roman men had forgotten how to fight outsourcing the nasty bits to the barbarians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1873521715432837427)  2024-12-30T00:09Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Re: your first point I would add that for the vast majority of medieval and Renaissance Latin texts there are no translations at all. AI can translate simple prose without too many absurdities but not poetry or philosophy. There are no translations of most of the Latin inscriptions that decorate 100s of 1000s of rooms and buildings. That means you have no idea what our ancestors were thinking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1873711866758988180)  2024-12-30T12:44Z 13.1K followers, 20.7K engagements


"2/ All educated men and many women studied the classics until the later 20th century. Ignorance of classics means ignorance of what those who built our civilization knew - what all Western theologians lawyers doctors architects poets novelists and essayists knew. The Latin-less are like children overhearing an adult conversation when they read something written before our own time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1873712806673223784)  2024-12-30T12:48Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I've just written a [----] page book The Golden Thread that treats Eastern Orthodoxy as part of the Western tradition indeed the main bulwark of it until the 11th c. And I'm a Roman Catholic. @michaelbd It is also no doubt true for many (it is for me) that I love the West but I want Christ more. I would rather have Christ w/o the West than have the West w/o Christ. I found Christ in the Christian East in a way I had not in the West. But thats me. @michaelbd It is also no doubt true for many (it is for me) that I love the West but I want Christ more. I would rather have Christ w/o the West than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1876181164853174559)  2025-01-06T08:17Z 13.1K followers, 19.1K engagements


"I just heard last night that Ralston College is starting classes in spoken Latin (they already have classes in classical Greek). This is the only way to overcome the ADD and reading/memory loss induced by online living. Ordo amoris - "Order of Love" Latin is sexy again. Ordo amoris - "Order of Love" Latin is sexy again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1885254335757496457)  2025-01-31T09:10Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Reno is right about the ordo amoris. The people saying otherwise are aligning with the extreme utilitarian Peter Singer who in The Most Good You Can Do essentially says: if your mother needs money but children are starving in Africa you should send money to Africa. His philosophy gave rise to effective altruism and ESG. @firstthingsmag @JDVance https://www.compactmag.com/article/jd-vance-is-right-about-the-ordo-amoris/ https://www.compactmag.com/article/jd-vance-is-right-about-the-ordo-amoris/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1885642064710226320)  2025-02-01T10:51Z 13.1K followers, 13.4K engagements


"I've recently spoken to several Latin teachers who are convinced that the way to teach the next generation Latin is to teach Latin conversation. The young now lack the cognitive ability to memorize paradigms and vocabulary. This is true and very bad. "A more oral culture"i.e. the end of the age of literacyis not just weird and different but a regression to something more primitive. This is true and very bad. "A more oral culture"i.e. the end of the age of literacyis not just weird and different but a regression to something more primitive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1887947275760267392)  2025-02-07T19:31Z 13.1K followers, 39.7K engagements


"Yes. What classical schools need to cultivate is deep knowledge a subject matter. Hire people with M.A.s (or Ph.Ds) in history literature or philosophy who are mission-aligned. Hire teachers of classical Latin and Greek who love the books they teach. Many of the leaders of the best classical schools prefer a young person with a degree in ANYTHING besides Education. Its true. Its that bad. Many of the leaders of the best classical schools prefer a young person with a degree in ANYTHING besides Education. Its true. Its that bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1888210981706158402)  2025-02-08T12:59Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Vermeullarmine Thank you I thought there must be a simple authoritative response to this. So why do we have to wait through a whole appeals court process for the Judiciary branch to say this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1888382066976309252)  2025-02-09T00:19Z 13.1K followers, 13.4K engagements


"So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy then talk about them. Bring back the salon I know that it's been a busy news cycle but this catastrophe deserves notice. Half A Million Students Given ChatGPT As CSU System Makes AI History via @forbes https://t.co/8KWZptzRND I know that it's been a busy news cycle but this catastrophe deserves notice. Half A Million Students Given ChatGPT As CSU System Makes AI History via @forbes https://t.co/8KWZptzRND"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1889880368649740560)  2025-02-13T03:32Z 13.1K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Yes reread. I've re-read Augustine's Confessions at different points in my life and each time met a different Augustine. It's just an incredibly rich text. Same with the Old Masters of Western art. The Old Masters are full of thought. @JamesWHankins1 Read and re-read and treasure and reach for it again. @JamesWHankins1 Read and re-read and treasure and reach for it again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1890388833046335962)  2025-02-14T13:13Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Yes used by Holy Roman Emperors till Napoleon suppressed the empire. Modelled on the throne in the Magnaura palace in Constantinople which in turn was meant to be a copy of Solomon's throne as described in [--] Kings [--]. Now that's the Western tradition for you. Charlemagne's Throne in Aachen. For more than [---] years Christian rulers used this as their coronation throne for their inauguration. Our shared values also come from this world which pre-dates liberal disorder. It can and should inspire the renewal of nations again. https://t.co/uOAfWQUK33 Charlemagne's Throne in Aachen. For more than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1891582313911234963)  2025-02-17T20:15Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"It also has a richer and more precise language of obscenity and is not like contemporaries forced to use the f-word as four of the eight parts of speech. For over two thousand years the Latin language has outlived all those who have said it is dead. For over two thousand years the Latin language has outlived all those who have said it is dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1898795655629353331)  2025-03-09T17:58Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"My students are grand-students of Paul Oskar Kristeller who himself studied with Heidegger Eduard Norden Werner Jaeger and Wilamowitz. I am starting to have grand-students too. This is the sort of thing universities should care about but don't. My students now have students. They are my grandstudents. They are the great-grandstudents of John Finnis and Joseph Raz. They are the great-great-grandstudents of H.L.A. Hart. All of this pleases me enormously. My students now have students. They are my grandstudents. They are the great-grandstudents of John Finnis and Joseph Raz. They are the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1904284113558802672)  2025-03-24T21:28Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Every renaissance the West has ever experienced Theodosian Carolingian Ottonian and the renaissances of the 12th and 15th centuries all began with a renewed devotion to the beauty and power of Latin. Learning Latin is the most revolutionary act in the defence of the West. It is a radical affirmation of identity with ultimate origins in Roman and Christian Europe. Learning Latin is the most revolutionary act in the defence of the West. It is a radical affirmation of identity with ultimate origins in Roman and Christian Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1906329213583474897)  2025-03-30T12:54Z 13.1K followers, 20.5K engagements


"The Golden Thread the Western civ book that Allen Guelzo and are publishing this summer with Encounter Books is designed for college students and classical school students. Sadly most public school students now lack the vocabulary and reading skills needed to understand it. I say this as the grateful [----] graduate of an excellent public school. @EncounterBooks @CLT @LawLiberty @ufhamilton @classical_convo @MemoriaPress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1910647550379442538)  2025-04-11T10:54Z 13.1K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Every word golden. Evelyn Waughs writing advice to Merton: https://t.co/lBg7tS1WGC Evelyn Waughs writing advice to Merton: https://t.co/lBg7tS1WGC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1910649765487853716)  2025-04-11T11:02Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Just look what happened when Elagabalus tried to bring back Baal and transgender himself. The Roman conquest of the world was fully justified. https://t.co/sHzour5krV The Roman conquest of the world was fully justified. https://t.co/sHzour5krV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1912162868205879480)  2025-04-15T15:15Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I follow Roger Scruton in defining a conservative as someone who understands that good things are easier to destroy than create and Edmund Burke on the compact between generations. The work of eight generations of Harvard alumni shouldn't be ruined because of the mess the last generation has created. @firstthingsmag @compactmag @newcriterion @LawLiberty @theammind @EncounterBooks @CLT_Exam @Paideiainstitut https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/a-conservative-harvard-professor-on-how-the-university-can-save-itself-e5f9c90amod=hp_lead_pos10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1915754218255687756)  2025-04-25T13:06Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Harvard's email system is now offering "tone detection" to help me treat administrators with all the respect they deserve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1917035225181311355)  2025-04-29T01:56Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@JeremyTate41 [--]. The Arena (or Scrovegni) Chapel in Padua interior painted entirely by Giotto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1917669639506493564)  2025-04-30T19:57Z 13.1K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Agree. Profs always have at least two choices. Try to set high standards for students and self or try to pander to students for higher enrollments. Elective systems incentivize the pandering prof. One of the untold higher ed scandals is that the replacement of core curricula with elective gen ed started a race to the bottom for undergrad courses. One of the untold higher ed scandals is that the replacement of core curricula with elective gen ed started a race to the bottom for undergrad courses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1918051258738356651)  2025-05-01T21:13Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"There can be no clearer proof of barbarism. My teacher Paul Oskar Kristeller whose parents were killed in the Holocaust bought a walking stick and posted himself in the card catalogue room of Butler Library taking shifts with other conservative profs when the '68 protesters threatened to burn it down. The issue is that its anti-any-sane-conception-of-civilization The issue is that its anti-any-sane-conception-of-civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920449518853648702)  2025-05-08T12:03Z 13.1K followers, 34.7K engagements


"To me it's obvious that the choice of the name Leo is an invitation to reread Rerum novarum (1891) a document that speaks directly to our post-socialist post-liberal moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920873588799709304)  2025-05-09T16:08Z 13.1K followers, 39.5K engagements


"The work of philosophy that had the most influence on me in my 20s was Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue. Later while writing Virtue Politics in [----] the Center for Ethics and Culture at Notre Dame gave me an office next to his and I was able to have informal conversations with him about the Renaissance. How lucky was that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1926014633795608943)  2025-05-23T20:37Z 13.1K followers, 12.6K engagements


"I'm convinced that many texts are in the canon because they are highly teachable: teachers just love Machiavelli and NIetzsche because you can just read out certain sentences and say "So do you agree with that If not why not" A "canon" is shaped by enduring enthusiasm from readers often mediated by the simplest form of tradition: teacher and student. A "canon" is shaped by enduring enthusiasm from readers often mediated by the simplest form of tradition: teacher and student"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1928680520365256819)  2025-05-31T05:10Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"A one-picture refutation of free speech absolutism. From Brussels Pride [----] sadomasochistic gay fetishists marching to proclaim pride in pretending to be dogs who sodomize other dogs. The Hungarian govt wanting to keep this sickness off the Budapest streets this weekend makes them Christofascists Really 🤡 https://t.co/TWisEsfx5G From Brussels Pride [----] sadomasochistic gay fetishists marching to proclaim pride in pretending to be dogs who sodomize other dogs. The Hungarian govt wanting to keep this sickness off the Budapest streets this weekend makes them Christofascists Really 🤡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1938331014633558239)  2025-06-26T20:18Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Five thesis prizes awarded to my department this year: three on race on on environmentalism one on the "new right" - the titles of all announce their alignment with Correct Opinion. Sigh. At some point a rebellion of boredom is bound to set in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1939821519947129060)  2025-06-30T23:01Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Is any department of language instruction other than Classics happy to award degrees to persons who haven't bothered to learn the languages it teaches Does any discipline outrank Classics in having so many insiders who forthrightly desire to annihilate it https://t.co/Xhgiyr3vil Does any discipline outrank Classics in having so many insiders who forthrightly desire to annihilate it https://t.co/Xhgiyr3vil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1939831427857592568)  2025-06-30T23:40Z 13.1K followers, 18.3K engagements


"@Vermeullarmine Code language in my department: (1) his work is 'not interesting.' (He's writing a biography of a Founding Father or doing military history.) (2) She wouldn't 'fit in'. (She's made the mistake of listing her work for a Christian organization on her CV)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1943811828213055576)  2025-07-11T23:17Z 13.1K followers, 28.9K engagements


"Case in point: we once had a truly brilliant applicant for our PhD with Latin Greek and other modern languages fine prose stylist first-class recommendations from well-known scholars. The only problem was that he was a priest and would wear a Roman collar. "Wouldn't fit in" was the code on that occasion. @Vermeullarmine Code language in my department: (1) his work is 'not interesting.' (He's writing a biography of a Founding Father or doing military history.) (2) She wouldn't 'fit in'. (She's made the mistake of listing her work for a Christian organization on her CV). @Vermeullarmine Code"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1943879695549727093)  2025-07-12T03:46Z 13.1K followers, 24.6K engagements


"My magnum opus has arrived. Magnum as in [----] pages [---] illustrations most in color [--] maps well over a hundred extracts from primary sources chronologies and lists of key terms. I wrote Volume [--] from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance and my oldest friend in academe Allen Guelzo - we went to high school together - wrote volume [--] due out in October"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1945996585722376644)  2025-07-17T23:58Z 13.1K followers, 249.1K engagements


"There is an excellent encyclopaedia The Classical Tradition ed. Grafton Most and Settis published by Harvard University Press. Recommended. This book however is a narrative history of a 2500-year old tradition. Who said encyclopedias are a thing of the past Who said encyclopedias are a thing of the past"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1946008993802883539)  2025-07-18T00:47Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"When people talk about how the use of AI is going to destroy the human mind I can't help remembering Plato's view that literacy was destroying human memory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1946386812219404696)  2025-07-19T01:49Z 13.1K followers, 28.2K engagements


"When I first tried to familiarize myself with Catholic social teaching which was far too late in my career as an intellectual historian the first thing that struck me was that the popes from Leo XIII to JP II were neither socialists nor free market liberals but were seeking the good in both while illuminating them from reason and revelation. CST is the flash of divine light illuminating the dark landscape of modern materialist thinking not reducible to ideology. Pius IX having an aneurysm . the current Pope took his name from a most venerable predecessor who repeatedly condemned socialism ."  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1946723262157009125)  2025-07-20T00:06Z 13.1K followers, 13.8K engagements


"The University of Florida is the new leader in the study of Western and American civilization. So-called elite universities have abandoned the study of Western culture and politics over the last [--] years and that betrayal has given other institutions the opportunity to create new centers of excellence. https://news.ufl.edu/2025/07/hamilton-school-faculty-expansion/ https://news.ufl.edu/2025/07/hamilton-school-faculty-expansion/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1947485872317730894)  2025-07-22T02:36Z 13.1K followers, 379.9K engagements


"@willriddle1 Almost. But unlike Harvard and the Ivies the UF administration answers to the state legislature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1947541344093634783)  2025-07-22T06:16Z 13.1K followers, 12.1K engagements


"I've talked to quite a few Chinese high school students while in China who no longer plan to apply to US colleges because of the new barriers to student visas. They are all now planning to apply to the UK. Oddly this is leading to a revival of interest in Latin since students believe that classics is the easiest route to acceptance at UK universities. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3319556/chinese-eyeing-us-degrees-turn-more-discerning-opportunity-still-worth-riskmodule=top_story&pgtype=homepage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1948924686357746070)  2025-07-26T01:53Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@zerohedge You have to wonder about the mentality of people who are paid money knowingly to defame other people. Like the souls in Dante's Hell who have lost the intellectual good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949474760976740825)  2025-07-27T14:19Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"First review of The Golden Thread The first of a two-volume set seeks to capture the story of Western civilization for a new generation of students and readers. via @WSJBooks https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-golden-thread-review-a-treasure-house-of-culture-34807f1fst=rtqYFp https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-golden-thread-review-a-treasure-house-of-culture-34807f1fst=rtqYFp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1956464105658765766)  2025-08-15T21:12Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Down with oikophobia It's time for period of self-loathing to come to an end in the West. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-golden-thread-review-a-treasure-house-of-culture-34807f1f https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-golden-thread-review-a-treasure-house-of-culture-34807f1f"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1956692447771111454)  2025-08-16T12:20Z 13.1K followers, 10.8K engagements


"Conservative billionaires in my limited experience want value for money and know how to analyze business models and flyspeck balance sheets. They want projects that are viable up front. Lib billonaires like Sy Newhouse were willing to lose gazillions on prestige publications like Vanity Fair or Vogue just to enjoy the prestige and to ensure people like themselves stayed on top of the cultural totem pole. Every party gets the billionaires it deserves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1957593623773737104)  2025-08-19T00:01Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements


"How did we get to the point that learning is not respected in elite universities Might it have something to do with the trahison des clercs Oh no it's nothing WE have done surely We haven't done anything to weaken language requirements for PhD degrees for example. I remember attending a party at Chicago where several people were working on the Hittite dictionary. Knowing Greek and Latin was like having taken French in high school. What a godforsaken wreck that university has become. I remember attending a party at Chicago where several people were working on the Hittite dictionary. Knowing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1957828375147606395)  2025-08-19T15:33Z 13.1K followers, 46.7K engagements


"The tide is turning. The reign of brutalism and inhuman ugliness is coming to an end. https://t.co/VpUviA3FCy https://t.co/VpUviA3FCy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/1961557536026378521)  2025-08-29T22:32Z 13.1K followers, 11.9K engagements


"Can any language beat Latin in its lapidary quality Chinese is great for compressing slogans or ideals into a few words but can it bite like Sallust "Pauci libertatem pars magna iustos dominos volunt." Historiae [--] frg 60"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1961862631947411923)  2025-08-30T18:44Z 13.1K followers, 22.4K engagements


"@MichaelTLoPiano I once sang the St Matthew Passion while in the Duke Chapel Choir. By the end we concluded that Bach hated singers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2003103084118188455)  2025-12-22T13:59Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The warmth of collectivism Budapest 1956"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesWHankins1/status/2007019041555402973)  2026-01-02T09:20Z 13.1K followers, 142.8K engagements

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