
What We Lose When We Abandon the Classics
Excluding the Western canon and emphasizing minority writers forces students to dwell on identity politics until it becomes an empty obsession.

Excluding the Western canon and emphasizing minority writers forces students to dwell on identity politics until it becomes an empty obsession.

Woke scolds are once again decrying Lord of the Rings as racist, far-right propaganda.

“The less a person knows the history of his own people, the less rooted he is in national and European culture, the less he understands the world around him and the easier it is to govern him.”