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2022, Lerner. K. Lee. "Reading Caesar. Through the looking glass of history shine lessons for today. Taking Bearings." Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. September 20, 2022
Reading Julius Caesar is a wonderful exercise in propaganda detection and discussions about such detection in Caesar's commentaries are the quickest way to reveal a person' s depth of scholarly acquittance with the material. (download to read more)
Lerner, K. Lee. "Hemingway; Burns and Novick's Portrait of the Artist and Man." Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. April 12
Hemingway; Burns and Novick's Portrait of the Artist and Man2021 •
Part I: Hemingway's enduring intimacy I am a scientist, an author, occasionally a journalist, and an editor of science and factual media. I'm not a literary scholar, but I have read all of Hemingway's published works and spent many days with his personal writings and photos preserved in the Hemingway archives at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Spelunking in the collection donated by Mary Welsh Hemingway was always one of my favorite personal diversions when in Boston. After making a reservation with a research librarian, I'd jump on the Red Line from Harvard to the JFK/UMass exit. That being sufficient "T" time, I would take a taxi back to my room at the Harvard Club in Back Bay or to the house I rented in Cambridge, just off campus on Kirkland Place. It would be hard to mistake the Hemingway room, adorned as it is with a mounted antelope head from his 1933 safari, a lion-skin rug, and his portrait. My explorations in the Hemingway collection were admittedly cursory. l followed my own interests and requested material related to Hemingway's coverage of the Spanish Civil War and WWII. I confess to an almost promiscuous voyeurism in viewing rarely seen writings and photos of someone whom I felt I already knew intimately. Great writers have the ability to span time, distance, and differences to make their readers intimate companions. Six decades after his death, Hemingway still has legions of us who think we know him. We think we understand him, and we envy and try to emulate his life, his writing, or both. (download to read more) DEDICATION: For my grandsons Owen Cafferty Lerner and Cary Cafferty Lerner: May you grow to enjoy Hemingway's writing and learn from his life. Use what is valuable and reject what is destructive as you find your own path to becoming better men.
Lerner, K. Lee. "The Bear Gets a BOGO: The ICA on Russian Meddling in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election." Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs
The Bear Gets a BOGO: The ICA on Russian Meddling in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.2017 •
For those of you wondering why I recently took an impassioned interest in defending the Electoral College, the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Russian meddling in the recent U.S. elections explains my combative stance. Whether intending to elect or defeat a foreign candidate or cause, influencing elections is an old game played globally by both Russian and U.S. intelligence agencies. Destabilizing institutions and reducing confidence in government are often key components. The ICA acknowledges that "Russia, like its Soviet predecessor, has a history of conducting covert influence campaigns focused on U.S. presidential elections" and that recent efforts, including "press placements to disparage candidates perceived as hostile to the Kremlin" were an escalated use of existing techniques. For many us familiar with Russian tradecraft, the Bear's paw prints were abundant and easily visible months before the election. Omitting classified supporting evidence that would reveal methods and sources, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) cooperated to draft the ICA. Their joint conclusion -- based on evidence known by 29 December 2016 and offered with generally high confidence -- was that Russian hacking, along with propaganda and disinformation efforts (including the creation and dissemination of fake news), were undertaken with the direct knowledge and approval of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials. The Russian effort, initially designed to "denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency" and eventually included efforts to "help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him" (about this last assertion, the NSA offered only moderate versus high confidence). The Russian effort was part of a continuing and "longstanding desire to undermine the U.S.-led liberal democratic order" by undermining "public faith in the U.S. democratic process." (continued... download to read more)
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This chapter introduces the reader to the world of fiction and disinformation in early modern Europe. It starts by placing fiction and disinformation in the context of wider trends and developments, while also drawing a parallel between present practices and concerns and those of the early modern period (Section I). The chapter then surveys existing scholarship on these themes, highlighting the novelty of recent research and the transformative potential of interdisciplinary work (Section II). Finally, it sets out the approach and methodology which underpin the rest of volume (Section III). It is argued that fiction and disinformation need to be studied in tandem, and that their study should be guided by a combination of literary and historical approaches. This method is exemplified by the volume’s nine chapters. They all conduct close readings of falsehoods and fictional writings, examining their rhetorical and linguistic qualities, including matters such as style, narrative and genre; and they also uncover how fiction and disinformation brought about change in society and in the lives of the people who wrote them as much as those who read them. This makes the Supplement as a whole a methodological intervention, further bridging the gap between historical analysis and cultural criticism, and a contribution to the social and cultural history of early modernity.
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2004.11.08
Review -- Pius II: Commentaries, Vol. 1 (I Tatti Renaissance Library)Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome, edited by C. Steel and H. van der Blom . Oxford University Press.
“Cicero and the Politics of Ambiguity: Interpreting the Pro Marcello.”2013 •
Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Development and Basic Aspects
Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Development and Basic Aspects, by Andreas Mehl, translated by Hans-Friedrich Mueller (Chichester, UK, & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, May 17, 2011; ISBN: 978-1405121835). Pp. 304.2011 •
Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in both Greek and Latin, from the early annalists to Orosius and Procopius of Byzantium. •Provides an accessible survey of every historical writer of significance in the Roman world •Traces the growth of Christian historiography under the influence of its pagan adversaries •Offers valuable insight into current scholarly trends on Roman historiography •Includes a user-friendly bibliography, catalog of authors and editions, and index •Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Cicero
Cicero and the Fourth Triumvirate: Gruen, Syme and Strasburger2015 •
The Alternative Augustan Age
‘The Reputation of L. Munatius Plancus and the concept of “serving the times” ’A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography
The Development of the War Monograph2007 •
Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century – with two Epilogues
Bruni, Cicero and their Manifesto for Republicanism2020 •
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2004 •
Master's Thesis
THE VICTORIOUS WISDOM OF SIMONIDES: CICERO'S JUSTIFICATION OF ACADEMIC SKEPTICISM IN DE NATURA DEORUM AND DE DIVINATIONE by2008 •
International Society for the History of Rhetoric: Tenta-Third Biennial Conference
Panel (chair): The Eloquent Musician2022 •
Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity
The Descent of Style in Cicero's' Brutus2007 •
International Society for the History of Rhetoric - Twenty-Third Biennial Conference
The 18th Century Musical Orator – Delivery, pronuntiatio and musical performance2022 •
Australasian Society for Classical Studies, online
'Saving the Mind': Toward a New Etymological Understanding of Σωφροσύνη2021 •
The Twenty-Third Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2-6 August 2022
Angelo Poliziano and the pseudo-Quintilian’s Declamationes maiores2022 •
American Journal of Philology
Scribam ipse de me: The Personality of the Narrator in Caesar's Bellum Civile2011 •
2018 •
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
The Kingdom of God: A Biblical Theology2019 •
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Lerner, K. Lee. "Policymakers must now assume that Iran has the enriched uranium it needs to build a nuclear weapon." Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. June 1
Policymakers must now assume that Iran has the enriched uranium it needs to build a nuclear weapon2022 •
Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History
Gn. Pompeius, the son of Pompey the Great: an embarrassing ally in the African War? (48-46 BC)2012 •
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Lerner, K. Lee. "US Border Policy -- It's not just about power, it's about lives" Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs. June 28
US Border Policy -- It's not just about power, it's about lives2022 •