[1] While still in high school, Cantor attended Ludwig von Mises' economics seminars in New York City.
[1] Cantor wrote on a wide range of subjects, including Homer,[2] Plato,[3] Aristotle,[4] Dante,[5] Cervantes,[6] Shakespeare,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Christopher Marlowe,[14] Ben Jonson,[15] Jean-Jacques Rousseau,[16][17][18] William Blake,[18][19] Lord Byron,[18][20] Percy Bysshe Shelley,[18][21][22] Mary Shelley,[18][23][24] Jane Austen,[25] Romanticism,[18][26] Oscar Wilde,[27] H. G. Wells,[28][29] Friedrich Nietzsche,[30] Mark Twain,[31] Elizabeth Gaskell,[32] Thomas Mann,[33] Samuel Beckett,[34][35] Salman Rushdie,[36] Leo Strauss,[37] Tom Stoppard,[38] Don Delillo,[39] New Historicism,[40] Austrian economics,[41] postcolonial literature, contemporary popular culture,[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] and relations between culture and commerce.
[12][51] Cantor also published articles on several other Shakespeare plays, including As You Like It,[52] The Merchant of Venice,[53] Henry V,[54][55] Othello,[56] King Lear,[57][58][59] Timon of Athens,[60] and The Tempest.
Cantor's second book, Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism (1984), included discussions of Rousseau, Blake, Byron, and the Shelleys.
Cantor also published many articles on films and television shows, most of which are listed on his webpage at the University of Virginia and on his CV.
A 2004 article in Americana described Cantor as "a preeminent scholar in the field of American popular culture studies.