Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan's Farewell Lecture

10:20 AM, May 4, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

The William F. Buckley Jr. program at Yale posts video of Donald Kagan's farewell lecture:

Kagan's 'Farewell Lecture'

8:50 AM, Apr 28, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

Matthew Kaminski on Donald Kagan, in the Wall Street Journal:

Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his "farewell lecture" here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War inspired comparisons to Edward Gibbon's Roman history—uncorked a biting critique of American higher education.

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Donald Kagan Says to Bring Back ROTC

The famed historian speaks out.

1:30 PM, Apr 12, 2011 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

Donald Kagan has a great piece in the New Haven Register on why Yale (and other schools) should bring ROTC back to campus. The piece has a particularly moving passage on the heroism of the American soldier:

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Still Being Felt?

Still Being Felt?

Not all past events have ramifications for today.

Apr 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 30 • By JOE QUEENAN

Recently I got around to reading Donald Kagan’s majestic study, The Peloponnesian War. Boy, was it majestic. Adroitly delineating the circumstances that led to the demise of the Athenian republic, Kagan makes it clear that the unnecessary conflict was one of the worst tragedies ever to befall mankind. 

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