What Can the Past Tell Us About the Present?

We like to think that we in the twenty-first century are a modern and advanced society. We may be technologically advanced, but I think what has been on display in the past few years is how much we have regressed as a people. Maybe it’s time to take example from the past.Yesterday, I participated in a livestream for the launch party of our fifteenth issue of An Unexpected Journal on “The Ancients.” The issue contains pieces ranging from poems to explanatory essays highlighting writers from Hom...