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April 30, 2021
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Jo Livingstone
How a Young Scholar Changed Our Understanding of Homer Forever
On the short and momentous life of Milman Parry
July 3, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Rod Dreher’s Bad History
On the pernicious ideology at the heart of the conservative blogger's infatuation with Western civilization.
December 19, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Mary Beard’s Medusas
The historian’s new pamphlet succumbs to deterministic explanations of gender.
October 25, 2017
Jo Livingstone
University History Departments Have a Race Problem
The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?
October 3, 2017
Giancarlo Buonomo
Some People Just Don’t Like
The Odyssey
In Daniel Mendelsohn's new memoir, the act of reading Homer tests a father-son relationship.
February 18, 1991
Irving Howe
The Value of the Canon
What's wrong with 'P.C.'
December 27, 1975
Judith Shklar
Hannah Arendt’s Triumph
September 10, 1966
Pauline Kael
Godard Among the Gangsters
A review of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Band of Outsiders”
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