Until his retirement, Steven Farron was a professor of Classics at the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa. In addition to publications on Homer, Vergil, and Horace, he has written a book on affirmative action, The Affirmative Action Hoax, and a monograph, Prejudice Is Free, but Discrimination Has Costs: The Holocaust and its Parallels (available from the author), in which he argues that the Holocaust was the most ruthless implementation of affirmative action ever undertaken