BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES

What They're Saying...

"This is an important book for those who wish to give the classics a primary place in the education of our youth and for all those who care about quality teaching."
— Washington Times

"Professors Hanson, Heath, and Thornton have written a set of powerful essays that combine scholarship, passion, and wit in a devastating critique of the errors and sins that have brought the condition of the humanities low in America's colleges and universities. They take on the elite rulers of what has become a shrinking and increasingly embattled kingdom with a vigor and zeal that embody the power latent in studies that are truly humanistic. Their assaults resemble the attacks made by the humanists of the Renaissance against the scholastic pettifoggers of their day and, in time, are bound to win a similar victory."
— Donald Kagan, Hillhouse Professor of History and Classics, Yale University

"The authors, who define their own enterprise as 'academic populism,' address this [academic] elitism and hypocrisy in a series of scathing essays and book reviews…"
— Publishers Weekly

"The true enemies of the Humanities are an unholy alliance between the tenured ideological dictatorship of deconstructive Leftists and the corporate-managerial mentality of fat overpaid administrators. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton are resolved to give these nefarious forces a run for their money. What makes this book genuinely splendid is that its authors know where to start: in Classical Antiquity, the indispensable foundation for any education that wants to see young minds growing into their full human potential."
— Virgil Nemoianu, William J Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and Ordinary Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University of America

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