One of the consequences of the "Great Books of Western Civ" approach to education that conservatives love is that you actually end up knowing nothing about the history of most of humanity. https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1192496751632101377 …
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it would be funny to have like a Shapiro/Peterson summit on Hegel and Augustine
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Yeah...but even Ancient Egypt is generally part of 'Western Civilization' and you'd think they'd have heard of say, Genghis Khan.
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yeah. just gonna say as a classicist myself, even a minor familiarity with Herodotus or Pliny would have taught Lowry otherwise. Or a trip to the Louvre or the Met. Even a basic Great Books Western Civ education should have stopped him from this stupidity.
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yeah they read comics
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