The Party of the Living Dead

Ricochet ^ | January 31, 2015 | Paul A. Rahe

[Verginius Rufus]

Paul Rahe is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992).

Donald Kagan is a conservative. I don't know if any of his other protégés are. Kagan was at Cornell but left in disgust at how the university handled the radical students there in the late 1960s, or so I have been told. His students from the Cornell years include Charles Hamilton (Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University) and Richard Berthold (Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico). His students from the Yale period include Jennifer Tolbert Roberts (now at CUNY), Rahe, Peter Krentz (now at Davidson College), and Barry Strauss (now at Cornell).

Berthold was the focus of unwanted notoriety after a very ill-considered attempt at humor on 9/11/2001 led to an uproar--he retired about a year later, maybe unwillingly.