April 25, 2008

Ethnic Studies and Classics

To the Editor:

In the next-to-last paragraph of "Lefkowitz Agonistes: a Contemporary Odyssey" (The Chronicle Review, March 28), Carlin Romano states, "All these sources also show how hard it is for 'proven fact' to win the day when a venerable discipline rooted in partial knowledge and evidence clashes with an upstart field whose non-impartial scholars operate from ethnic pride, understandable historical resentment, and the imagination to build rich circumstantial cases."

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