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Thermopolia: Ancient Romans’ Fast Food
For a long time, I’ve had an interest in restaurants. For me, they were a special place. You could enjoy a really good meal and in a great atmosphere with your loved ones. Restaurants also inject variety into mealtimes and give patrons a chance to experience food from all around the world. In addition, restaurants…
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Noblesse Oblige and the new Optimates
A recent Atlantic article by David Brooks (2024), in its criticism of the new meritocracy, claimed: “In some ways, we’ve just re-established the old hierarchy rooted in wealth and social status—only the new elites possess greater hubris, because they believe that their status has been won by hard work and talent rather than by birth.…
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The wealth gap phenomenon
One of the largest phenomena in politics is the growing wealth gap in our country. Throughout my humanities courses, this idea has begun to surface in subtle ways, but recently it has appeared in full force in the form of Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Thus, a great opportunity presented itself to study the philosophy surrounding the…