released 3/31/2023

In a 2001 article, “The Necessity of the Classics,” Louise Cowan argued that until very recently, the body of texts known as “classics” “has stood guard over the march of Western civilization, preserving its ideals of truth and justice, whatever its lapses may have been.” Ken Myers talked with Cowan in 1998 about why the classics still matter.

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