Comrades: I am honored to host
on the Anti-Demoralization Zone podcast.
Alex hosts the Cost of Glory podcast to help us draw energy and insights from great figures of the past. He left a successful career in academia to bring the Classics to bigger audiences. Alex has written for American Mind, Man’s World, and Antigone. As part of Cost of Glory, he hosts a men’s leadership retreat in Rome every summer. For 2024, it’s on the first and third weeks of July.
In our conversation, we discuss the state of classics in academia, the importance of storytelling to widen its appeal, Famous Men of Greece, Sulla as an underappreciated figure, the parallels between the Roman and US Empires, and how we can draw inspiration from the Classics to usher in a new age of human flourishing.
“Fill your souls with Plutarch, and dare to believe in yourselves when you have faith in his heroes. With a hundred people raised in such an unmodern way, that is, people who have become mature and familiar with the heroic, one could permanently silence the entire noisy pseudo-education of this age.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
