The Sunday Read: ‘He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?’

<p>For years, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a Dominican-born teacher of classics at Princeton, has spoken openly about the harm caused by the discipline’s practitioners in the two millenniums since antiquity — the classical justifications of slavery, race science, colonialism, Nazism and other 20th-century fascisms.</p><p>He believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.</p><p>Today on The Sunday Read, how Dr. Padilla is trying to change the way the subject is taught.</p><p><i>This story was written by Rachel Poser and recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, </i><a href="https://www.audm.com/?utm_source=nytmag&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=the_iconoclast" target="_blank"><i>download Audm for iPhone or Android</i></a><i>.</i></p>