Fresno Pacific University History Program

The perfect pangram today was instantaneous for us Romanists.

I did a review of Bregman's _HumanKind_ for the next _Pacific Journal_ -- please read the book if you have time this summer. If you are also a child of the end of the last millennium, it is likely to shift your paradigm as much as it did mine. Here is a wordcloud of the review; thanks to the amazing Chris for turning me on to the scholar and the work. I have been so busy arguing against concepts like the "perfectibility of man" and the "end of history" that I didn't examine my own assumptions enough.

https://www.amazon.com/Humankind-Hopeful-History-Rutger-Bregman/dp/0316418536

The Minoan site that has been excavated near where the new Cretan airport will be gives us another chance to gently rib our Archaeologist friends for resorting to religious ritual when we have insufficient evidence. Lucky for us, Classicists and Philologists never assume major literary connections based on a few, possibly random, verbal similarities. Anthropologists never construct a whole civilization based on one questionable artefact.