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https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1840053286272901440Of course such 'cultural compatibility' arguments often reduce down to thinly veiled racism - 'compatible' cultures are the ones imagined to be white.
https://twitter.com/mcgillmd921/status/1824195420593197454First off, being a 'Romanophile' is not the right way to approach any sort of history.
https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1817957987283062828And I won't bury the lede here: the problem with our sources here is that while most folks are really interested in the phalanx of Philip II and Alexander III ('the Great'), our sources mostly didn't see that phalanx.
https://twitter.com/thinkingwest/status/1810654053895979278More broadly over course, this simplistic vision of 'feudalism' would be insufficient for even an introductory undergraduate survey, equating vassalage (relations between aristocrats) with manorialism (the economic system involving peasants).
https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/18031881487525232671) VDH asserts that the Greek way of war, fighting as close-order infantry with a relatively high degree of discipline, is unique to Greece and thus the West.
https://twitter.com/davidpgoldman/status/1790380771829563651What would they even be made out of, twine? Not steel!
https://twitter.com/PetreRaleigh/status/1783520674205544638Many of these are private universities, so declaring student-protestors are trespassing and kicking them off campus is legal, I guess, but pretty damn inconsistent with state university missions for things like free debate and open inquiry.