Hello and welcome once again to Where in the World is your friendly neighborhood book bro.

This is not the main content of our episode, but I keep traveling, so we keep having this guessing game where you try to figure out where I am.

Last week it was New College, Florida, which was awesome. I told you guys all about that.

This week it's difficulty level extreme. If you can figure out where I am out here on

election week, then that's very impressive, given just this weird nondescript hotel room that I

am in. Here's one little hint, which is that this, if you're watching, you can see that I have

a photograph of the Lincoln Memorial

behind me. So, where am I? Who knows? It's a mystery. But this episode was recorded before

the election. So it's not about all of the stuff that's been going on. It's not about the changes

in our country or anything like that.

But it does involve my major 2025 prediction, which of course, as you know, knowing me, is not going to be about politics.

It's not going to be about the daily news cycle. It is instead going to be about ancient languages. I have been working for a

long time now with the Ancient Language Institute, which is, I think, one of the most important

new endeavors to come out of the digital age. They're not a digital only organization. They teach

Latin, Greek, biblical Hebrew, now Old English, in person.

And that's an important part of what they do.

But they have the spirit of an online world, which is to say that they are their own kind

of startup.

They're doing what the classical traditional institutions won't do.

As the academy and the places we're used to going for this kind of thing have sort of

started to melt away or devolve into insanity, ancient language institute is a great example

of a place where you can go to get what you would at once perhaps

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