Underfunding classics and humanities is dangerous : vimarsan

© Getty Images
If there’s one thing classicists know it's that ancient Greece did not have a Senate, despite what Trump's defense lawyer, Bruce Castor, might have claimed. But the trotting out of Greco-Roman antiquity, however mistaken, in President Trump
Within the last two months, classicist Victor Davis Hansen was part of the committee behind the now-defunct 1776 Commission Report and insurrectionists infamously paraded many classical symbols during the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.
Classics are now engaged in a deep reckoning on why these associations have stuck around so easily. Some have suggested that something inherent to the discipline is at fault: we cannot separate out the discipline from the systems of oppression it has supported. But there is another reason; the systemic underfunding and under-appreciation of the humanities, especially of the pre-modern humanities like classics.

Related Keywords

Greece , Victor Davis Hansen , Anthony Fauci , Bruce Castor , , Classics , Humanities , Education , System , Science , Parts , Education Funding , Underfunding Education , Covid 19 , Pandemic , Dr Anthony Fauci , Donald Trump , கிரீஸ் , வெற்றியாளர் டேவிஸ் ஹேன்சன் , காயங்கள் ஆமணக்கு , கிளாசிக் , மனிதநேயம் , கல்வி , தண்டு , அறிவியல் , கலைகள் , கல்வி நிதி , சர்வதேச பரவல் , டொனால்ட் துருப்பு ,