I mean I didn’t graduate with a lit degree and spent my career in IT so I guess you can take a cross disciplinary endorsement. I was just a nerd.
His writing and timing are impeccable if you see it live, which is kind of lost on the page.
I found the histories worth reading because he’s editorializing history in his time. You have to remember his audience was us plebs, so we get the gossip instead of the record. You know too many times in history the hot gossip got covered by… literally Shakespeare?
The fact that he’s to the English language what the Beatles are to rock music feels eternally relevant too.
I’ve checked the frontpage from time to time just to monitor what’s changing, but I have yet to log in.