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The long-simmering crises challenging the European Union have worsened with the 2008 financial crisis, the influx of Middle East refugees in 2015, several bloody terrorist attacks, and England's departure from the E.U. in 2016. Yet these are all the wages of persistent flaws in the idea of the Union itself. Excessive regulations, welfare, and taxes impede economic growth. Centralization of power in Brussels has created a "democracy deficit" an...

Classics scholar Bruce S. Thornton argues that the Greeks were not hedonistic and saw Eros as a dangerous force in need of control. Thornton offers an iconoclastic account of ancient sexuality that links the wary attitudes of the Greeks to our own modern concerns about love, sex, and family. We see here a vision of sexuality that is perhaps more honest and mature than our own dangerous illusions.

The flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of rule by all citizens equally. In Democracy's Dangers and Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy, then traces the historical process by which the Republic of the founders has evolved into something similar to ancient democracy, and finally argues for the relevance of those critiques to contemporary US p...

Every human endeavor depends on commonly shared terms, concepts, and categories that make the work easier and more efficient. Studying and talking about the humanities-the great works of art, literature, history, philosophy, and music of the Western tradition-are no different. This handbook provides students with the most basic and general definitions of the terms and ideas that are used in introductory humanities, literature, and Western civi...

Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis predicts that in 50 years Europe will be an Islamic society, which is to say Europe will culturally disappear. In this penetrating and provocative book, Thornton shows how Europe reached this pass and analyzes what Europes decline means for the U.S.

Wages of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: the greek city-states of the fourth century b.c., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon, England in the twenties and thirties, and the failure to stop Germany's aggression that led to World War II, and America's current war against Islamic jihad and the 30-year failure to counter Iran...

Classicist Bruce Thornton's Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West's tradition of rational, critical inquiry -- a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities -- environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among theme.

Writing with wit and erudition, Thornton discusses in fascinating detail those areas of Greek life - sexuality and sexual roles, slavery and war, philosophy and politics - that some modern critics have made into contested sites. Perhaps more importantly, he also reclaims the importance of those core ideas the Greeks invented, ideas about human fate and purpose that have shaped the modern world.

Bruce Thornton's crisp and informative Student's Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of suggested readings, Thornton's guide is unparalleled as a brief introduction to the literature of the classical world.

Mass literacy, mass communication, and the Internet have all increased the amount of information available. But false knowledge still abounds. Taking cues from Sir Thomas Browne, the English Renaissance skeptic, this title examines a host of contemporary errors in thinking and offers a powerful explanation of why they occur.