{"id":12783,"date":"2021-01-08T12:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12783"},"modified":"2021-01-08T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:42:21","slug":"is-the-wisdom-of-homer-immune-to-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-the-wisdom-of-homer-immune-to-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Wisdom of Homer Immune to Cancel Culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Patriot Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These hallowed texts are suddenly being declared racist or sexist by preening moralists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, as one Massachusetts high school teacher recently boasted on social media, \u201cVery proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proud?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 20 years ago, John Heath and I co-authored \u201cWho Killed Homer?\u201d We warned that that faddish postmodernist race, class and gender theories \u2014 coupled with narrow academic specialization \u2014 was killing the formal discipline of classics in universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patriotpost.us\/opinion\/76838-is-the-wisdom-of-homer-immune-to-cancel-culture-2021-01-07\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Patriot Post Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture. We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These hallowed texts are suddenly being declared racist or sexist by preening moralists. Or, as one Massachusetts high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3kb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9767,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9767-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12783,"position":0},"title":"From An Angry Reader: The\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: The Angry Blogger How to Be a Good Classicist Under a Bad Emperor,\u201d by Donna Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley-based Classics scholar, Editor of Eidolon, November 21, 2016 A specter is haunting the Internet\u200a\u2014\u200athe specter of the \u201calt-right.\u201d The forces of white supremacy and toxic masculinity, fueled by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7772,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/small-latin-and-less-greek\/","url_meta":{"origin":12783,"position":1},"title":"SMALL LATIN, AND LESS GREEK","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Thornton reviews the book\u00a0Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations, by Mary Beard. 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