Eric Miller is editor of Current. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is a Current contributor. And some of you recall my podcast conversation with Lasch-Quinn in Episode 77 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. Here is a taste of Miller’s review...
Last week we called your attention to Howard University’s decision to drop its classics department. Cornel West called it a “spiritual catastrophe.” We now learn that Howard students are not happy about the decision. Here is a taste of Allyson...
You can lead the country through the coronavirus pandemic just like Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (OK–he was technically a classics major at the College of the Holy Cross–close enough!). Here is a...
Whenever I teach my course in colonial American history (which, if all goes as planned, I will be teaching in Spring 2013), I assign Edmund Morgan’s American Slavery, American Freedom. I know that scholars have challenged Morgan’s thesis about the...
