Currently reading: Swift's "Battle of the Books"

Revisiting the ongoing culture wars, I dusted off none other than Jonathan Swift's allegorical Battle of the Books set between a cast of characters who take the whimsical form of books, ancients and modern. In this economical tale, Swift draws his sword for most of the story but my reading suggests a tilt toward the ancients. Despite the hubris of the post-modernists, we will always stand on the giant soldiers of the antients. Who studies Cicero or a Seneca for guidance? What have the modernists offered to improve both the questions and the answers first tumbled upon by the "antients". For all the hubris of science and discovery, in his time and ours, Swift says we still stand on the shoulders of the giants, who are not forever young but forever wise.