Rod Dreher’s Bad History
On the pernicious ideology at the heart of the conservative blogger's infatuation with Western civilization.
Classics
Mary Beard’s Medusas
The historian’s new pamphlet succumbs to deterministic explanations of gender.
University History Departments Have a Race Problem
The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?
Some People Just Don’t Like The Odyssey
In Daniel Mendelsohn's new memoir, the act of reading Homer tests a father-son relationship.
The Value of the Canon
What's wrong with 'P.C.'
