Bonfire of the humanities: rescuing the classics in an impoverished age

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Academic populism and the assault on the classics

Part I: What we should not be and not do. Cultivating sophistry / Bruce S. Thornton

Socrates redux: classics in the multicultural university / John Heath

Part II: Very bad theory. More quarreling in the muses' birdcage / John Heath

Too much ego in your cosmos / Victor Davis Hanson

The enemy is us: the "betrayal of the postmodem clerks" / Bruce S. Thorton

Part III: Elitists, careerists, and assorted opportunists. Self-promotion and the "crisis" in classics / John Heath

Who killed Homer?: the prequel

Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath

The twilight of the professors / Bruce S. Thornton

Not the unabomber / John Heath.