“Aristotle had hopped a boat from Athens, strolled into the library at Alexandria, grabbed a bunch of books, brought them back to Greece, and put his name on them.”

What happens when you call this bogus claim “rubbish”? As Wellesley professor of classics Mary Lefkowitz discovered, you may be accused of fomenting a Jewish conspiracy against “black progress.” Prof Lefkowitz has a new memoir, History Lesson, detailing the incident and its aftermath. It’s reviewed in the New York Sun.