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Military Compass", "url": "https://www.exurbe.com/a-chance-to-support-ex-urbe-military-compass/", "published_at": "2013-05-18T04:35:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-804c-72b4-ba14-abda2fddfa9c", "title": "Stark’s Metamorphosis (an Unbiased Review of Iron Man 3)", "url": "https://www.exurbe.com/starks-metamorphosis-an-unbiased-review-of-iron-man-3/", "published_at": "2013-05-13T15:50:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-804c-72b4-ba14-abda30be8ff3", "title": "A Rose for Rodrigo Borgia (guest post)", "url": "https://www.exurbe.com/a-rose-for-rodrigo-borgia/", "published_at": "2013-04-27T06:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-804c-72b4-ba14-abda3191dfbd", "title": "Spot the Saint: The Four Evangelists", "url": "https://www.exurbe.com/spot-the-saint-the-four-evangelists/", "published_at": "2013-04-13T03:17:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-804c-72b4-ba14-abda31fe0f96", "title": "Machiavelli V: Why We Keep Asking “Was Machiavelli an Atheist?”", "url": "https://www.exurbe.com/why-we-keep-asking-was-machiavelli-an-atheist/", "published_at": "2013-03-30T04:33:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-804c-72b4-ba14-abda32762c34", "title": "Machiavelli IV: Julius II, the Warrior Pope", "url": "https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-iv-julius-ii-the-warrior-pope/", "published_at": "2013-02-19T11:59:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-804c-72b4-ba14-abda3296c7a1", "title": "You Can Shoot a Laser THROUGH a Clear Blimp! 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2026

How is Inventing the Renaissance an SFF-Related Work?original ↗
29 Jan 2026

2025

Beatrice Twice Queen of Hungaryoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2025
LGBTQIA+ Renaissanceoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2025
Rags to Riches Stories Fake & Real, or Always Look Up Everybody’s Mom!original ↗
12 Feb 2025
History’s Largest & Most Famous Disability Access Ramporiginal ↗
11 Feb 2025
Clarice Orsini de Medici’s Extremely Illegal Hatoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2025
Gonzaga vs Sanseverino: I Fart in Your General Directionoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2025
Galeazzo Sanseverino & Milan’s Sovereign Polycule-Threesomeoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2025
Resistance when the Tyrant is in Power: Florence’s Vasari Corridororiginal ↗
27 Jan 2025
The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Warsoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2025
Cellini’s Perseus & the Violence of Renaissance Artoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2025
Inventing the Renaissance (book) coming out!original ↗
8 Jan 2025

2024

Tools for Thinking About Censorshiporiginal ↗
21 Jan 2024

2023

Strange Horizons Column & New Essay Publishedoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2023

2022

All People Are Created Educable, a Vital Oft-Forgotten Tenet of Modern Democracyoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2022
Terra Ignota Nominated for Best Series Hugo!original ↗
7 Apr 2022

2021

Terra Ignota AMA Questions: Meatmakers and Kitchen Treesoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2021
Terra Ignota AMA Questions: Craft of Writing & Performer Castingoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2021
Worldcon Schedule & Terra Ignota Calendaroriginal ↗
6 Dec 2021
Gender in Terra Ignota (Queership Repost)original ↗
3 Dec 2021
Perhaps the Stars Essay Roundup plus AMA best-of: Religion & Utopia in Terra Ignotaoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2021
Medical Leave Reflections plus Empathy Sphere Essayoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2021
Barbie Career of the Year as a Window on Centrist Feminismoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2021
5 News Items: Podcast, Online Teaching, Gene Wolfe, Audiobooks, & Perhaps the Starsoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2021
Online talks: Apocalyptic Renaissance, Teaching Power in History, Inquisition, Rare Booksoriginal ↗
13 May 2021
Who We Think Has the Power to Change the World? (transcript)original ↗
16 Apr 2021
Why I Teach Machiavelli Through His Lettersoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2021

2020

Self-Care & Healthy Work Habits for the Pandemicoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2020
Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Agesoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2020
Uncanny Censorship Essay & Writing POVoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2020

2019

2019 Campbell Speech + Refugee Charity Fundraiseroriginal ↗
19 Aug 2019
Thoughts on a Bad Pain Day and How Teamwork Accumulatesoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2019
Stoicism’s Appeal to the Rich and Powerfuloriginal ↗
27 Mar 2019
Milton’s Arguments Against EU Copyright Directive Article 11 and Article 13original ↗
24 Mar 2019

2018

2018 Campbell Speech, How New Authors Expand Fields (+Censorship, Manga)original ↗
14 Oct 2018
Censorship Project + A Brief History of Book Burningoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2018
From Ada’s AMA: Minutiae Ignotaoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2018
From Ada’s AMA: Terra Ignota, Bash’es & Hivesoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2018
From Ada’a AMA: Terra Ignota, Language, Gender & Musicoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2018
From Ada’s AMA: Lifeoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2018
From Ada’s AMA: Writingoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2018
From Ada’s AMA: What’s the most effective way for someone today to encourage space exploration?original ↗
11 Jan 2018

2017

The Will to Battle is out today!original ↗
19 Dec 2017
Campbell Award & Invisible Disabilityoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2017
The Key to the Kingdom, or How I Sold Too Like the Lightningoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2017
Seven Surrenders is Out: New Links Postoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2017
Promoted Comment: The Scary Atrocious Thomas Hobbesoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2017
On Progress and Historical Changeoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2017

2016

Spot the Saint: More Dominicanioriginal ↗
29 Oct 2016
Four Updatesoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2016
San Marco: The Dominican Monastery at the Heart of Renaissance Florenceoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2016
Day After the Book Comes Out Link Round-uporiginal ↗
11 May 2016
Novel Launch Blog Entries, plus Useful Plantsoriginal ↗
6 May 2016
Plato essay, #historypix, and the excessively exciting life of Pope Urban VIIIoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2016
So Much Shakespeare!original ↗
25 Jan 2016

2015

Sketches of a History of Skepticism Part 4: the Renaissance, Montaigne and a touch of Voltaireoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2015
Thoughts on the Cover for “Too Like the Lightning”original ↗
24 Sept 2015
Sketches of a History of Skepticism Part 3: Cicero through Scholasticismoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2015
Pluto Ahoy! Also, New Music Kickstarter & Photos of Greenland.original ↗
16 Jul 2015
What Color is Pluto? (guest post)original ↗
7 Jul 2015
Intellectual Technology—a Promoted Commentoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2015
Machiavelli and Intellectual Technology, plus Shakespeare & Summer Updatesoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2015

2014

Spot the Saint: The Four Doctors + Saints’ Hatsoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2014
Stage Blood and Jetlag, or an Ex Urbe Visit to Londonoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2014
Discontinuity and Empathy: a non-review of “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys.original ↗
14 May 2014
News: University of Chicago, Lucretius Book, Train Touroriginal ↗
13 May 2014
Hello, Everyone: I’m Ada Palmer.original ↗
4 Mar 2014
Sketches of a History of Skepticism, Part II: Classical Hybridsoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2014
Sketches of a History of Skepticism, Part I: Classical Eudaimoniaoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2014
Update; Lectures on the 17th Century and Enlightenmentoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2014
In Ristauro (undergoing renovations)original ↗
16 Jan 2014

2013

A Brief Holiday Hello from Italyoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2013
The Thor 2 Gloat-A-Thon (an unbiased review of Thor 2: The Dark World)original ↗
22 Nov 2013
Background of Marvel’s “Thor: the Dark World” (an unbiased recap)original ↗
3 Nov 2013
New Gelato Atlas, Forthcoming Plans, Web bugs?original ↗
31 Oct 2013
How to Spot Good Gelato from 15 Feet Awayoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2013
Comments Re-enabled; RSS & Mailing List; Noon Cannonoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2013
On Crimes and Punishments and Beccariaoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2013
A Sunny Day in Oxfordoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2013
The Shape of Romeoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2013
“The Borgias” vs. “Borgia: Faith and Fear” (accuracy in historical fiction)original ↗
26 Jul 2013
Spot the Saint: Jerome and Cosmas & Damianoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2013
The Scariest Libraryoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2013
A Chance to Support Ex Urbe; Military Compassoriginal ↗
18 May 2013
Stark’s Metamorphosis (an Unbiased Review of Iron Man 3)original ↗
13 May 2013
A Rose for Rodrigo Borgia (guest post)original ↗
27 Apr 2013
Spot the Saint: The Four Evangelistsoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2013
Machiavelli V: Why We Keep Asking “Was Machiavelli an Atheist?”original ↗
30 Mar 2013
Machiavelli IV: Julius II, the Warrior Popeoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2013

2012

You Can Shoot a Laser THROUGH a Clear Blimp! (Skyfall movie review)original ↗
13 Dec 2012
Holiday Gift Suggestions from Ex Urbeoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2012
Machiavelli III: Rise of the Borgiasoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2012
Machiavelli II: The Three Branches of Ethicsoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2012
Modern Pentathlon: Quick plug for an obscure but awesome sport.original ↗
9 Aug 2012
Machiavelli I (addendum): thoughts on this style of presenting historyoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2012
When in London, do as the Greeks do.original ↗
5 Aug 2012
Sbandieratori – Florentine Flag Tossersoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2012
Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)original ↗
10 Jul 2012
A Food Map of Florenceoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2012
An Unbiased Review of the Marvel “Avengers” Movieoriginal ↗
24 May 2012
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