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The Unbearable Whiteness Of The Classics: Your Thoughts

Readers sound off on the woke campaign against the ancient Greeks and Romans.

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Feb 12, 2021
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Continuing our debate from the main edition, a reader thinks I’m being too rarefied:

You shouldn’t focus so much on elite universities; few kids attend them. Here at my flagship public university in Deep Red America, our Classics Department is alive and well. My students this semester will be reading Aristotle, Seneca and Cicero. I realize that the elite…

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