Oh, this looks fun:
Author: Kopff, E. Christian.
Title : The devil knows Latin : why America needs the classical tradition / E. Christian Kopff.
Published : Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 1999.
And that's why you just have to browse them stacks, folks.
UPDATE - What a piece of right-wing trash! Somewhere between the first and second chapters the book transformed from an impassioned defense of the Classics into a hysterical broadside against multiculturalism and Nietsche, who is apparently Mr. Kopff's post boy for "modernity". Never mind of course that Nietsche himself was a trained classicist and represents a rejection of mere conservative worship of the ancients in favor of a mano e mano engagement with all the great thinkers who have gone before, an approach that Plato and his master Socrates would most certainly have approved of. And don't get me started on multiculturalism! Why is it that the most vocal proponents of Latin and Greek have to be xenophobes or pompous asses? As if there is no cultural connection between the great civilizations of the world. Did the Greeks spring fully developed from the head of Zeus, like Athena? No! But even leaving that simple truth aside, only a reactionary idiot would think that knowing something - anything! - about the rest of the world's history, literature, and thought could possibly be a bad thing. The humanities aren't a zero sum game, chief! Or at least they shouldn't be seen as such. So much for that chance find!
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