Letters

To the Editor:

I was surprised by the conclusions Peter Wood drew about my book Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond (2016) in his Summer 2017 Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest column (vol. 30, no. 2). I don’t think it’s accurate to suggest that I deem traditionalists in the academic culture wars “profoundly wrongheaded.” In fact, my book offers much support for their positions. Similarly, I attempt to show in my chapter on the American Journal of Philology controversy that academic feminists did not get Georg Luck fired, and that the controversy surrounding his editorship wasn’t really about feminism at all.

Undoubtedly, my book will disappoint stalwart proponents of either side in the academic culture wars. But I hope readers of Academic Questionswill appreciate the fact that it attempts to offer a fair-minded analysis of the feuds