Last summer, Francis and I spent a week with Rollston College students and professors in Greece,

and learning about the roots of Western civilization in the very place they emerged

was genuinely moving.

If you like Trigonometry, you love the fact that Rollstone runs a one-year MA in Humanities

for anyone with a bachelor's degree or equivalent in any discipline, and there's genuinely

nothing else like it today. The program begins in Greece, where students spent two months

learning to read and speak ancient Greek while studying the foundational works of the Western

tradition, starting with Homer. From there, it continues in Savannah, Georgia, with small

serious seminars on the most important works of the Western

Canon. Ideas are tested properly. Arguments are sharpened. Nothing is spoon-fed. This is education

as it used to be, and as it should be again. Full scholarships are available. Applications

close on the 27th of February, 2026. Apply at ralston.ac.ac slash apply. That's r a L-S-T-O-N dot AC forward slash apply.

On August 12, 2017, a neo-N-R-N-R-N-Rowelley deliberately drove his car into a crowd of left-wing

protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia,

killing a 32-year-old woman called Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others.

America and the rest of the world were on a knife edge.

The victims were assembled to counter the Unite the Right rally,

a demonstration against the proposed removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general.

And the attack acted as a climax to the nation's increasing polarization and paranoia

about President Trump's links with the so-called alt-right. At a press conference in the media

aftermath, President Trump made a series of incendiary comments, including saying that there were very fine people

on both sides. Like many, I was horrified and outraged by the fact that instead of trying to bring

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