Millennials are unprepared to wield power
On reading THE DECAMERON, and the virtues of magnanimous conduct
Last week our book club discussed an incredible book. Normally we read contemporary novels and nonfiction, but one of our members proposed Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, a novel (of sorts) written in the 2nd century AD, by a North African Roman. Initially I started to read this edition, but I found the translation to be whack and totally unreadable: the cha…
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