The great books aren’t just a collection of “dead white males,” and teaching or reading them isn’t elitist or Eurocentric. On the contrary, they are a treasure that should be made available and accessible to working-class people everywhere.
The academic discipline of classics is facing profound challenges from scholars that are looking to renovate its traditional focus on the "whiteness" of its subject. This study is an expression of that challenge.
From culture war to civil war?
The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil
A scholar of the Classics takes a look at how the far right uses, and abuses, ancient texts in its propaganda.
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