Curtis Dozier
Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
- Yes there's something unhinged about Rufo criticizing Scandinavians but it also repackages the White Nationalist thinking that the (allegedly) superior empathy/liberality of white ppl leads to their extinction. All part of the "which way western man" rhetoric pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/04/25/e...
- Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
- If you're curious about my work on white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity there's now an excerpt at @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social. If it speaks to you you can use promo code AIA26 for 30% off and free shipping from @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
- “...violent and hateful actors taking inspiration from the ancient world strikes a deeply incongruous note that might be laughable—if the consequences of that admiration were not so disturbing...” From the new book by @curtisdozier.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/confronting-...
- My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
- If you'd like to learn more I did an interview with @historycanthide.skystack.xyz historycanthide.substack.com/p/why-are-wh...
- Or you can listen to my interview with @mythsbaby.bsky.social at "Let's Talk About Myths, Baby" shows.acast.com/lets-talk-ab...
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View full threadMy latest interview is with @areidross.bsky.social on @franetwork.bsky.social 's "Right Rising" rightrising.fireside.fm/65
- I've admired @areidross.bsky.social and his "Against the Fascist Creep" for a long time so it was a real honor to talk with him for the @franetwork.bsky.social podcast "Right Rising" about "The White Pedestal."
- New episode is up rightrising.fireside.fm/65
- I've been wondering about how to show solidarity against ICE and I just reposted (doesn't allow quote posts) a guy who's part of the collective that sends 3D printed whistles to areas under siege. Apparently Megyn Kelly is annoyed and I was like well then, take my money. See his linktree to help!
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- @karenhunter.bsky.social interviewed me on her @urbanviewradio.bsky.social program a couple weeks ago and has now put the video on youtube. Great, challenging interview about "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_s...
- The only thing to add is that if you have a red senator, by calling, you show solidarity with the people who have been laboring for change in your state and that matters
- I can't decide if (one of) my biggest vice(s) has been vindicated or if you can prove anything if you do it right lifehacker.com/health/diet-...
- Oh wait it says not to engage in simplistic interpretations
- New interview out about "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate." This time with Sascha Lilly on @kpfa.org g 's "Against the Grain." kpfa.org/episode/agai...
- Agree with @nevillemorley.bsky.social the proposed UKIP logo looks familiar. A Nazi cross with a shield and spear? Goebbels said "In Sparta I feel I am in a German city."
- Really need to get back to working on my series on Elon Musk at Pharos pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/01/31/e...
- Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
- I've "known" Angelo for a long time on social media and it was great to finally connect with him about my book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate."
- The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate by Curtis Dozier is a powerful exploration of how extremist movements weaponize the classical world. open.substack.com/pub/angelona...
- "Discourse and policy that assert loudly the low value of certain kinds of literate capacity may be indicating, by their vociferousness, those capacities that are (and are recognized by those in power to be) of the highest potential value." On AI & Roman dependence on slaves for literary production
- Logging back on briefly to encourage you to go read this issue of Pasts Imperfect, where I have an essay about the push to automate literacy in the contemporary academy and the relegation and subjection of literacy in Ancient Rome pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...
- Reposted by Curtis DozierApplications are not yet open for the "Racing the Classics" fellowship for next year, but if anyone at #AIASCS2026 #AIASCS who would like to learn more about it, I'm here and, as an associate convener, am eager to talk with folks who are considering applying!
- Thanks to @antiquitypod.bsky.social for the invitation to talk about my new book, "The White Pedestal" on white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity. Great conversation!
- As promised, here's the link to the site for the new episode. The YouTube link is in the next post. I hope you enjoy this episode and that you buy Dr. Dozier's book (out today). It's an excellent read. classicalantiquitypod.com/2026/01/06/s...
- LOL as I discuss in my new book "The White Pedestal" (out today!) Plato is a great author to read (uncritically) if you want to promote racial essentialism, xenophobia, eugenics, naturalness of hierarchy, so much more.
- In short, @speterdavis.com , I really like the name of your newsletter (plato-was-a-dick.ghost.io)
- Reposted by Curtis Dozier"Greco-Roman antiquity's reputation as a high point in European history has eclipsed the fact that some of the most widely admired figures in ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists share" (3).
- Thanks to @mythsbaby.bsky.social for a great conversation about my new book "The White Pedestal" on Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Nationalism, both out today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
- It's because very few places in the US have actually been willing to do what is needed to reduce ped deaths. "We fail to act because we are terrified of a lost parking space, a slightly lower level of service, a few seconds added to a car trip." tooledesign.com/insights/202...
- Sadly, my sense is that years of work with the "stop for me" efforts in St. Paul (which I've written about more than once) have made zero difference on the streets. If anything, drivers have gotten worse. www.startribune.com/after-uptick...
- I confess I've always used Rick Steves' books (never led me wrong), and I confess I've always been a little embarrassed about that in the snob circles I'm in, but no more (still deeply embarrassed that we as a wealthy society leave it to people like Rick Steves to do this though)
- I remember having a great meal at a place in Italy that had a handwritten sign that said "Recommended by Richard Steven"
- In *The White Pedestal* I'm trying to fill in a part of this, how white nationalist intellectuals use the public's respect for GrecoRoman antiquity to make their ideas seem respectable, desirable, & inevitable. It's only one piece of their rhetorical toolbox but its representative of a major tactic
- Can't recommend @lkatfield.bsky.social's book highly enough. One thing it has me thinking about a lot is how this has all been translated into mass political action Certainly this has something to do with podcasts, etc. But *so many* Americans, who are not reading scholarship, have bought in
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- I'm not a car guy but I've been reading CR for a long time and Jeep is their evergreen punching bag not just on reliability but everything else too so for Tesla to come in lower is really saying something
- please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
- Kahlil Greene interviewed me last week on "History Can't Hide" about my forthcoming book on white nationalism and Greco-Roman antiquity. The video is available at his Substack: historycanthide.substack.com/p/why-are-wh...
- @bretdevereaux.bsky.social I know someone at Helios and confirmed that the Children's Illustrated Clausewitz is still in print and available at their site! (including reasonable US shipping). Their books are beautiful!
- Once again a reminder that - intended for slightly older kids - the Children's Illustrated Clausewitz is a real book that really exists (though alas, I think, currently out of print). www.helios.house/books/childr...
- Classical scholars may be interested in their edition of Alcestis, as interpreted by Sonia H. Greene and H.P. Lovecraft, which is one of those "you can't make this up" pieces of literary history www.helios.house/books/alcestis
