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Lessons from a long-ago war?
Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation
Welcome to your Friday Daily.聽
Not many writers go deep on the Spartans these days聽unless they鈥檙e covering football at Michigan State. Ned Temko, our London-based connector of global dots, does so today, dusting off the story of the big-shouldered power play by Athens, during its war with Sparta, against the tiny island colony of Melos. Ned shows shades of a cautionary parallel in modern U.S. foreign policy.聽
Back in 2022, Ned joined me on a podcast episode to talk about how he approaches his Patterns column, a reboot of Pattern of Diplomacy, which was bashed out on a manual typewriter for years by the late, rumpled-but-refined Monitor legend Joseph C. Harsch. You can listen or read about Ned and about his own take on Patterns 鈥� and see him in his book-crammed garden writing shed 鈥� here.
