Donald Kagan's farewell
Language Log 2013-05-05
Summary:
Matthew Kaminski, "Democracy may have had its day", WSJ 4/26/2013:
Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his "farewell lecture" here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War inspired comparisons to Edward Gibbon's Roman history—uncorked a biting critique of American higher education.
Universities, he proposed, [...]