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July 2025

On AI-Generated Imagery
Why computers cannot and will never be able to truly create art.
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Alex Nusky
Video Game Review: Citadelum
My opinions on a city builder with light combat mechanics
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Alex Nusky
On the Cursus Honorum and its Place in American Politics
How young is too young to become mayor of a major city?
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Alex Nusky
Book Review: Dinner With King Tut by Sam Kean
A jaunt into the contemporary world of experimental archaeology, and how its scholars are attempting to recreate cultural practices from the ancient…
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Alex Nusky

June 2025

11 Books I Read in 2025, Part 1
The first half of my literary diet for this year
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Alex Nusky
Book Review: Facing Down the Furies by Edith Hall
A review of a succinct exploration of a taboo topic, viewed both through the eyes of an academic and a victim of its wrath
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Alex Nusky
In Pursuit of Didactic Poetry
Why this underappreciated subgenre of an underappreciated style of writing ought to become a fixture of any modern classroom worth its salt.
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Alex Nusky
Book Review: Pericles and Aspasia by Yvonne Korshak
A multifaceted novel about the relationship between Athens' greatest strategist and his favorite hetaira
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Alex Nusky

May 2025

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