Ancient Wisdom for Modern Trouble

by Michael Fontaine

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Ancient Wisdom for Modern Trouble

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Free speech, humor, power, persuasion, and human folly—from ancient Greece and Rome to modern institutions.

About Michael Fontaine

Cornell classicist. Author of How to Speak Freely and How to Tell a Joke. Ancient wisdom on free speech, humor, persuasion, power, and institutions. Obsessed with South Tyrol. Szaszian. Header: Wolfgang Moroder/Wikimedia Commons; cropped.

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