Writer

David F. Clifton

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Make Athens Great Again!

Will the United States go the way of Athens, unable or unwilling to stop a demagogue from undermining its democracy and ruining its international power?


​Letter to the Editor: Change “Classical Languages,” Not the Department of the Classics

I do not feel it unreasonable, Eurocentric, or discriminatory for a university in the West to have a department dedicated to the classical civilizations that begat Western culture.


Racist Policing, Again

Racist policing, whether in the form of something as commonplace as excessive enforcement of traffic violations or of something as disturbing as the unwarranted use of force, must end.