David Wilson

Retired. Unlikely career from Latin teacher to tribal bureaucrat to university director of Native American Studies. Bibliomaniac. Woke.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

I block anyone who seems not on the level. Maybe that explains why I only have 2 1/5 followers. But not interested in porn, investing, sob stories.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

I have a Ph.d. so I know everything and I've read everything, and the truth is that Detective Lennie Briscoe is the greatest character in all of world literature.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@For_Film_Fans I don't know... I "think" it's a good movie. It has a good movie's elements, and certainly a good movie's cast and crew. But something about it (and James Elroy's works generally) that's off-putting. I knooow it's supposed to be obnoxious. It's certainly succeeded with that.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

The new adaptation of Lord of the Flies on Netflix is so-so, but for people living through the era of MAGA, it's difficult. "KILL BEAST." "LOCK HER UP."
( Reviews aside, always great to see Rory Kinnear.)

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@jmontforttx Time for more people to read The Monkey Wrench Gang.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@EmpireStateBldg My favorite documentary. Ric Burns' New York: Cosmopolis. The building of The Building.

https://t.co/DYu6n3sY7B

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@zoomafrika1 Thanks for posting this. Picked up my day.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@AntigoneJournal Wow. Just wow. I would want to be your best friend. I always dreamed of owning PW, and also trying to collect all the Teubner critical editions. Plus just for fun, all the old Migne editions, including the Syriac ones.
This is such a FUN account to follow.

[Edmund @Kulambq]

Eternal gratitude to you, maestro. You let us hear the voice of God.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Ivano Panetti @ivanopanetti]

OMG — you gotta watch this‼️👇🏻
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST — featuring Donald Trump

Credit: @champnella

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@AntigoneJournal Like like like like, ultimate like, like on steroids! The Classical Tradition, Poets in a Landscape, The Art of Teaching, The Immortal Profession were my bibles as a newly minted high school Latin teacher a LONG time ago. Thanks for sharing this.
Today is a good day.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@JoshPhillipsPhD Anything worth reading is worth reading slowly.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@BigBrainPhiloso Friedrich Katz, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. It is magisterial history by one of the field's finest practitioners. It is History done right. Even if the subject matter doesn't interest you, read it for its methodology and historical logic. The prose is quite accessible.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@Roma_aeterna923 A teacher once advised me to learn a language where significant scholarship exists, but is lesser-known by the community of scholars, e.g., Russian, Turkic, Polish, Czech. He said it would make me more marketable.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@camin I can relate. I got a master's degree in Classics but didn't pursue it further because I just couldn't get the hang of Latin and Greek. I couldn't sight-read without looking up half the words. I found my calling elsewhere, happily, but I continue to cherish all things ancient.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@dominbydigdug Not just any German, but 19th century Teutonic Wissenschafter German! I was once assigned to do a book report on Mommsen's Römische Staatswesen and... well, I lived through it, but... yknow.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@tomricks1 Unrelated, but this just popped up on my feed, and I wanted to say how much I enjoyed First Principles. Excellent! Glad to follow you!

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@SketchesbyBoze How does anyone feel about Norman Cantor's Inventing the Middle Ages? I really liked it, but one of the reviewers called it the worst book ever written about medieval Europe. 🤷‍♂️

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@AGPamBondi "Tirelessly"? How so? Give specific examples using confirmable evidence.

[David Wilson @hist1700]

@AfricaFirsts From afar, I've always sorta liked Namibia. Seriously ethical folks there.