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Taste -- It's War! --- You thought the Balkans were bad; Look at these classics professors
1999
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But Ms. Hallett may now deserve an even higher professional standing, for she has invented the first new technique in years for answering one's academic critics: just casually remark -- as Ms. Hallett did on May 11, on an e-mail forum subscribed to by more than a thousand classicists around the world -- that your opponents' names \"were given to the FBI during the nationwide effort to find the Unabomber\" back in 1995. The opponents in this case are Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath, the authors of \"Who Killed Homer?\" -- last year's widely discussed attack on the current state of the classics profession. Messrs. Hanson and Heath argued in their book that, in Plato's words, the sheepdogs have become the wolves: Contemporary classics professors, the ostensible caretakers of Greek wisdom, have turned into grant-seeking purveyors of identity politics and wreckers of the ancient spirit of the university. Mr. Hanson, incidentally, has written other works celebrating the agrarian origins of the classical world. And with that, the groves of academe caught fire. Dozens of messages ignited the classicists' e-mail list, denouncing Ms. Hallett, slanging one another and damning Messrs. Hanson and Heath for starting it all. The whole thing \"has hit the nadir of looniness,\" one member mourned. A plaintive teacher at Calvin College -- whose weak joke about shooting classicists prompted Ms. Hallett's first Unabomber reference -- tried to explain that he hadn't really meant it. Syracuse University's Jeffrey Carnes dubbed the authors of \"Who Killed Homer?\" \"intemperate, incoherent, inconsistent, megalomaniacal, and amazingly self-righteous.\" And that was in an e-mail message defending them.
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