Skip to main content

News

SOF Alum Dan-El Padilla Peralta Featured in This Week’s the Daily Podcast from the New York Times

Fellows, SOF Fellows

May 3, 2021

SOF Alum Dan-el Padilla Peralta was featured on The Daily, a podcast from the New York Times this past Sunday.

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.

He believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.