Joshua T. Katz

Joshua T. Katz is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the former Cotsen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he was on the faculty from 1998 to 2022.

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May 8, 2023

Classics: Inside Out and Upside Down

Joshua T. Katz

An ostracized humanities professor defends the study of Classics against the “loud voices inside the academy” that have “been calling for burning down the field.”

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February 24, 2024

Roland Hoover and the Role of a Great Faculty Adviser

Joshua T. Katz

"The first disappointment I felt when I entered Yale as a freshman in August 1987 came when I learned who had been assigned as my faculty adviser. Within a minute of meeting Mr. Hoover, however, I......

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July 27, 2023

A Symposium on Legacy Admissions: Joshua T. Katz

Joshua T. Katz

It is not clear that legacy admissions is (or should be) against the law, but even if it isn’t (or shouldn’t be), the intellectual and moral problems with the practice are a matter on......

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