The Caffeinated Symposium

Named for the coffee-shop discussions I enjoyed during my undergraduate and grad school days, this is an opinion-piece blog centered on my interests -- history and historiography, the classics, literature, comic books, Japanese language and popular culture, video/computer games, role-playing games, the pulps, television and film, and science-fiction/fantasy.

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Philosophy

Πλάτων and Πολιτεία (Plato and The Republic) 

Blogging de Tocqueville, Part Four
Blogging de Tocqueville, Part Three 
Blogging de Tocqueville, Part Two 
Blogging de Tocqueville, Part One

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Essays You Really Should Read

  • What's Wrong With 4th Edition D&D Part 1
  • A Brief History of Epic Fantasy1977--Now: Part One
  • Part Two
  • Part Three
  • Part Four
  • Conclusion
  • "Realism" and Nihilism in Contemporary Fantasy
  • On Terry Brooks' THE SWORD OF SHANNARA
  • On the Devolution of the STAR WARS Franchise
  • Robert Jordan and Brain Damage
  • The Right (and Wrong) Way to Write a Movie or Book Review
  • Transforming Robots, Space-War, and Love: The Importance of 超時空要塞マクロス as a Science-Fiction Epic

About Me

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Dave Cesarano
An MA in history with many and varied interests, I currently teach ancient Greek and Roman history to college students in exchange for peanuts.
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What I'm Reading Now

What I'm Reading Now
THE TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN CULTURE by Morris Berman

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      • Book Review -- HEART OF DARKNESS (and THE SECRET S...
      • Golden vs. Silver Age Artwork: Larry Elmore
      • Blogging de Tocqueville, Part Three
      • Book Review -- A STORM OF SWORDS by George R.R. Ma...
      • Book Review -- 1984 by George Orwell
      • Πλάτων and Πολιτεία
      • Book Reviews -- Asimov's FOUNDATION TRILOGY
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My Blog List

  • A Paladin In Citadel
    A Paladin In Pineview?
    2 days ago
  • Black Gate
    The Kids Are More Than All Right: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome on Blu-ray
    1 hour ago
  • Blood of Prokopius
    Inquisitor Class for ACKS
    11 hours ago
  • Boston 1775
    Winthrop Chandler’s Bunker Hill
    16 hours ago
  • Cardinal Wolsey's Today in History
    The All Saints Flood of 1570
    7 months ago
  • Coffee's Gone Already?
    Missing/Moved version.h?
    5 months ago
  • Cyclopeatron
    Alternate XP Systems
    12 hours ago
  • Dark Worlds
    KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS
    10 months ago
  • DigiLife
    Wow
    8 months ago
  • Fantasy Heartbreaker
    Star Trek-style gaming with Cortex+
    2 weeks ago
  • FILM CRIT HULK! HULK BLOG!
    THE AGE OF THE CONVOLUTED BLOCKBUSTER
    10 hours ago
  • futures past | Giant Freakin Robot
    Stargate SG-1 Turns Space Exploration Into Conspiracy And Theft In Futures Past
    10 months ago
  • Gaijin Chronicles
    Happy 2012!
    1 year ago
  • Good Show Sir
    I Will Fear No Evil
    22 hours ago
  • GROGNARDIA
    Imagine Magazine: Issue #6
    6 months ago
  • History News Network
    Niall Ferguson: Paris could burn this summer
    9 hours ago
  • Infinitely Challenged
    Gary the Mercenary – Who?
    2 years ago
  • John R. Fultz ------------ VIRTUAL SANCTUARY
    TRAILER: The Desolation of Smaug
    1 week ago
  • Middle East Reality
    Why do they hate us? The dispute between the West and the Muslim world
    3 weeks ago
  • Military History Blog
    Book Review of Austria's Wars of Emergence, 1683-1797: War, State, and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy
    4 days ago
  • MOVIEBOB
    HOLY SHIT THIS "LEGO" TRAILER!!!
    4 hours ago
  • nickbibby
    Chapter Two
    1 year ago
  • OF Blog of the Fallen
    So I've been contemplating "retirement" lately...
    22 hours ago
  • One Last Sketch
    Polish Gothic
    3 days ago
  • Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
    Cassandra Kresnov is back!!
    6 hours ago
  • Philosopher Gamer
    Dungeons and Dragons Next: Here cometh the incoherance
    3 days ago
  • Places to Go, People to Be
    Monday Pointers, June 3 2013
    2 weeks ago
  • Porky's Expanse!
    ... then the blogs - now specialist games?
    1 month ago
  • PUNKADIDDLE
    The End
    11 months ago
  • Roland's Codex
    Movies: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    6 months ago
  • Scribblings of the Metropolitician
    Korea Needs to Hold Up Its Obligations to CERD as It Tries to Call Itself a "Multicultural" Country
    4 months ago
  • Semper Initiativus Unum
    The Impact of Unique Monsters
    2 days ago
  • TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON
    2012 - a great year of just plain gaming
    5 months ago
  • The Alexandrian
    RPGNet Reviews – Sovereign Stone: Quickstart Rules
    1 month ago
  • The Cimmerian
    BLOG CLOSED
    3 years ago
  • The GAME OVERTHINKER
    The Book Is Imminent
    4 days ago
  • The Law of the Tagia
    The Chinese Day Dream: American Wishful Thinking
    2 days ago
  • The Silver Key
    Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian: A review
    4 months ago
  • The Tao of D&D
    Even Crazier
    9 hours ago
  • The Wertzone
    The Tudors: Season 2
    14 hours ago
  • Three Pound Brain
    Necessary Magic: A Reply to Ben Cain
    1 day ago
  • Unreported Heritage News
    Ancient "mural tomb" discovered in China
    1 day ago
  • What a horrible night to have a curse...
    Nostalgia Re-Issued
    16 hours ago
  • Wig-Wags
    The First U.S. Naval Ship Powered by Electric Motors
    2 years ago

Links of Interest

  • Academic Earth
  • Action Button Dot Net
  • Bondwine
  • Common-Place: A Common Place, an Uncommon Voice
  • Critical Hit
  • De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
  • Escape to the Movies
  • Extra Credits
  • Red Letter Media
  • SF Debris
  • The Big Picture
  • The Society for Military History
  • Wikipedia
  • Zero Punctuation

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