Donna Zuckerberg

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Classics Scholar

Donna Zuckerberg is a classics scholar and the editor-in-chief of Eidolon, an online journal for scholarly writing about classics that isn’t formal scholarship. She received her PhD in Classics from Princeton, and her writing has appeared in Jezebel, The Establishment, and Avidly. Her book "Not All Dead White Men," a study of the reception of classics in "Red Pill" communities, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in Fall 2018.

 

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Scythians at the Tomb of Ovid c.1640 (CC0) Since When Are White Supremacists Classics Buffs?

When Donna Zuckerberg noticed references to classical writers popping up on neo-Nazi and white supremacist websites, she decided to investigate. Why are they so invested in the classics?
Greek columns Does The West Have The Will To Survive?

We sat down with conservative intellectual Victor Davis Hanson, classics scholar Donna Zuckerberg, and French-Tunisian political scientist Nadia Marzouki to talk about President Trump’s speech, and try to unpack the question at the center of his message: Is the survival of the West the fundamental question of our time?
Shows
The Parthenon A New Clash Of Civilizations?