[bagman]

Donald Kagan - a leftist? Come now.

Professor Kagan is a scholar, furthermore, one with a decidedly Western civilization bias. About fifteen years ago, a Texas oil man, whose name escapes me, offered Yale a $20 million dollar gift to endow a chair of Western Civilization with the understanding that Kagan would be appointed to it. The Yale faculty dithered, and enventually, the donor, frustrated, withdrew the offer.

I look forward to watching Professor Kagan in action.

[SunkenCiv]

A careful re-reading of what I wrote up there should suffice to convince you that I SAID NO SUCH THING. Thanks.

[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently Kagan left Cornell and went to Yale because he was disgusted with the craven way that the Cornell administrators dealt with the student rebels there in the 1960s.

He's the father of Frederick Kagan and Robert Kagan, both distinguished authors in their own right.

[NucSubs]

I get all of my Greeko-Roman education from VDH. What does he have to say about Kagan?