The Objective Destruction of Classical Studies

The missing culprit responsible for the decline of our field.

Either because her philosophy is accepted by a large number of professors at the top or because it would cause an incident to acknowledge the truth, the greatest contributor to the devaluation of the classics in the 21st century has been largely unidentified by the wider academic community. “Objectivism,” as Ayn Rand has coined it, is the idea that ever…