Mike Casey

Tag: Classics

  • Confessions

    Some wisdom from St. Augustine

  • Favorite Books of 2015

    A dozen book recommendations

  • The Ancien Régime and the Revolution

    With all the hubbub about China as of late, I thought it might be worth reading Alexis De Tocqueville’s The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (Penguin: 2008). A number of China Hands say the Party has used this book to inform their approach to domestic stability and harmony.1 I have no idea whether these assertions…

  • Opinions

    ‘Intelligence differs from one man to the next, And yet each is happy with his own insight— Each thinks himself much brighter than the rest, Each values and praises himself to the height. All think their own understanding the best— Forever lauding their superior intellect, Forever denigrating all the rest. ‘Men who make common cause…

  • Favorite Books of 2014

    Following the smashing success1 of last year’s post on my favorite books from 2013, I thought I’d aim for a repeat and perhaps inspire some gift ideas for the holidays. Here are 11 standouts that I remember from this year.

  • The Enduring Relevance of Thucydides

    For some reason that I will never understand, Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War is not required reading for graduate students of international relations.1 I don’t know how I was handed a college degree without having read it, for that matter.

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