Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Image: Richard B. Levine/Zuma Press Nothing bored me more during the summer of 2008 than the ...

These days, the first lesson of high school Latin is often to answer the question: why Latin? The language peaked in the era of Roman gladiators and slowly faded throughout the Middle Ages. Today, 800 ...

David Morton shares his hopes for the new edition of Cambridge Latin Course, while Virginia Orrey recalls how she was hooked by Winnie Ille Pu A radical new Latin course book is indeed a rara avis – ...

Last year, a surprise best seller hit the British book market: a romp through Latin grammar, by a London journalist called Harry Mount. In Britain, the book was called Amo, Amas, Amat … and All That, ...

For Prof Lesley Smith, learning Latin made more sense than learning French. Liz Byrne encourages other teachers to consider learning and teaching it As someone who learned Latin at a bog-standard ...

You probably weren’t surprised to learn I was an English major for one semester in college. This week, I’m leveling up the nerd factor and divulging another academic secret of mine: I took three years ...

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