I've been very fortunate indeed because, as a doctoral student in St Louis, I've had a USA student visa throughout the pandemic. Which has meant that once total travel-bans were lifted, I've been one of the very few non-residential Europeans…
Here is something I've been playing around with for a bit, a tangent to the O Tempora O Mores series. I'll just post it here and see what you make of it https://www.markmeynell.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thought-Experiment-I-am-a-leader-FINAL.pdf
Sacred Treasure Where is good and evil in Afghanistan by Tom Bowring (c/o Psephizo) For important historical background, one can't do much better than William Dalrymple's brilliant account of Afghan history Are Foreigners Still Needed in the age of indigenous…