Exciting news! I’ve launched a companion podcast to this blog, Reading for the Renaissance Man. On it, I’ll be reading old books from the Western Canon with some amount of commentary. The idea is to help all of us who have been “meaning to get to” certain classic works for years, but have somehow not found the time. We’ll be starting with Thucydides’s The Peloponnesian War in our soon-to-be-posted first real episode. What’s the connection with the goal of this blog? Well, the Renaissance Man was a broadly read humanist, and part of his ability to persuade was based on being familiar with a wide range of people, times, and…