Donald Kagan, who died on Friday at the age of 89, was the world’s undisputed authority on ancient Greece. One of a dwindling number of conservatives in academia, Kagan never backed away from a ...

Donald Kagan was born on May 1, 1932, in Kursenai, Lithuania. He knew little about his father, Shmuel, who died when he was not yet 2 years old. A few months later his mother, ...

But no one could see through them until another great revisionist, Donald Kagan, pulled the magician’s curtain to the side and revealed him at work. All historians write in part about themselves.

Donald Kagan, Sterling professor emeritus of classics and history, former dean of Yale College — and just about everything in between — died on Aug. 6. He was 89 years old. Born in Lithuania in 1932, ...

Donald Kagan was a Lithuanian native, raised in New York City, who studied ancient Greece in college and was inspired by the “remarkable assumption that the human being is not trivial.” ...

Donald Kagan (1932–2021) was the Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University and the 2014 recipient of The New Criterion’s Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society.

Donald Kagan, a prominent classical scholar, contentious defender of traditional education and architect of neoconservative foreign policy, died Aug. 6 at a retirement home in Washington. He was ...