This episode I'm joined by Eric Adler who is a Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland. We discuss the book he recently edited: Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humanistic-Letters-Irving-Babbitt-Paul-Correspondence/dp/0826222900 --- Be

This episode I'm joined by Eric Adler who is a Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland. We discuss his book The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today. Book link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-battle-of-the-classics-9780197518786?cc=us&lang=en& --

These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today (Oxford UP,

On December 2, 2020, the University of Vermont announced that it would be eliminating the geology, religion, and classics departments, and also eliminating majors in Asian Studies, German, and Italian as part of cuts to programs in the College of Arts and Sciences with less than 25 or fewer students enrolled, or fewer