The far right is using antiquity to re-brand itself – but classicists are fighting back
Like the misuse of genetics in scientific racism, an appeal to Plato or Cicero lends hatred a veneer of philosophical and historical credibility.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Like the misuse of genetics in scientific racism, an appeal to Plato or Cicero lends hatred a veneer of philosophical and historical credibility.
By Emma Yeomans