Welcome one and all to the ninety second volume of the Areopagus, and the first of 2025. Much demands to be said of such an occasion, auspicious or otherwise.
Well, this much I say — that you may have noticed I am now offering a paid subscription to the Areopagus. Each new volume still goes out for free, because the value of education is surely in its reach. So what a paid subscription will get you is access to the full archives of the Areopagus, which are approaching one hundred volumes and nearly half a million words. You’ll also receive additional material — essays of the sort that don’t neatly fit the format of this newsletter, ones that I long have longed to write. But, above all, you’ll be supporting me to do this work — to do more of it, and more often. All this being the case, it is to the 16th century playwright Stephen Gosson I turn for needful words:
Bookes are but poore gifts, yet Kings receive them: upon which I presume, you will not turne This out of doores. Yet cannot for…
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