Outreach, Op-Eds, and Popular-Press Publications

  1. 2022. Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Cicero’s Consolation. Antigone.
  2. 2022. On Consolation, Grief, and Coping, and Heaven. Princeton University Press/Ideas.
  3. 2022. Cicero’s Six Mistakes of Man. Classical Wisdom
  4. 2022. A New-Old Way of Coping with Grief Mad In America
  5. 2021. True Grit. The New Criterion. (On Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations)
  6. 2021. Elevator Latin. InMediasRes
  7. 2021. Thirteen Dad Jokes from Ancient Rome for Father’s Day. InMediasRes
  8. 2021. The Real Source Behind “Sic Semper Tyrannis.” InMediasRes
  9. 2020. The Art of Slander: How to Create a Masterpiece, Troll your Enemies, and Win Bigly. Classical Wisdom Litterae (part 1; part 2)
  10. 2020. The Rules of Drinking: The long history of drinking games – and how to win them. History Today and Time Magazine
  11. 2020. Ancient advice for drinking at home during coronavirus self-quarantine. USA Today
  12. 2020. Did Psychosurgery Start out as a Joke? PsychologyToday.com
  13. 2020. The Epic Battle for Mental Health and Inner Peace. PsychologyToday.com
  14. 2019. Where Does Mental Illness Come From? PsychologyToday.com
  15. 2019. The Twisted Tale of The Pig War. InMediasRes.
  16. 2019. Action Figures in Classical Literature. Ezra.
  17. 2019. Classical Lessons in Business Education: What is the Duty of a Company? LinkedIn. With Devin Bigoness.
  18. 2018. Twitter has become the modern-day Colosseum. Fortune.
  19. 2018. Easter Eggs in the Aeneid. InMediasRes
  20. 2018. Watermarking the Aeneid. InMediasRes
  21. 2018. The Magic Spear Theory of Aeneid 12. InMediasRes
  22. 2018. Back to the Future in Virgil’s Aeneid. InMediasRes
  23. 2018. Secrets of a Lost Art, part 2: Chronograms. InMediasRes
  24. 2018. Secrets of a Lost Art, part 1: Latin Anagrams. InMediasRes.
  25. 2018. Classical Lessons in Business Education: Six Leadership Insights from the Trial of Socrates. LinkedIn. With Devin Bigoness.
  26. 2018. The Mythic Origin of a Famous Wine: The Ballad of Old Falernus. InMediasRes. Translation from Silius Italicus’ Punica 7. (Professional audio reading by voice actor Laura Richcreek added in 2020.)
  27. 2017. (with Skye Shirley) “Classics.”  Humanities in Class: How to Think and Learn in the Humanities, 73-104. National Humanities Center.
  28. 2017. “Ergasilus’ Monologue (Plautus, Captivi 69-87).” Translation from the Latin. Minerva Journal, 1.
  29. 2017. “What is the Best Way to Learn Latin?” Moderated conversation on Eidolon.
  30. 2016. “Wine Critics: Everything Old is New Again.” The Huffington Post. With Justine Vanden Heuvel (on Pliny the Elder’s recommendations for wine)
  31. 2016. “Growing Old with Latin.” Moderated conversation on Eidolon.
  32. 2016. ‘Hack your Latin’ series. Medium.com. Six short articles addressed to Latin teachers, students, graduate students, and enthusiasts everywhere: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
  33. 2015. ‘American Bacchae,’ Eidolon.
  34. 2015. ‘Straight Talk on Gay Marriage in Ancient Rome: The Perils of Precedent,’ Eidolon
  35. 2015. ‘Aeneas in Palestine,’ Eidolon.
  36. 2014. ‘On the Acronym Origin of the Phrase Hep! Hep!,’ to appear as an appendix to an article published by colleagues at Weill Cornell Medical School.
  37. 2014. Report on the August 8, 2014, ‘Celebration of the Life and Work of Thomas Szasz’, Everson Museum, in Syracuse, New York, for Szasz.com
  38. 2012. ‘Happy End mit Brautschatz,’ Gülzower Gemeindebrief (local church bulletin of Gülzow, Germany) 191 (November 2012, translated from the English by Ilka Weihmann)
  39. 2012. ‘“Goldtopf” in Kopenhagen entdeckt,’ Gülzower Gemeindebrief 188 (February 2012, tr. Mona Eikel-Pohen)
  40. 2002. “Iter Arpinas,” New England Classical Journal 29, 102-3.