Our students read the greatest books of the tradition, a challenge to the brightest minds, and risk themselves repeatedly in conversation, until those who are seasoned “invariably deem it a special privilege to be in the front,” as General William Tecumseh Sherman said of veteran soldiers. Years ago, when my wife and I taught at […]
More and more I am convinced that our ultimate human fate will depend on whether or not we succeed in wresting the intellectual life from the professoriate. Doesn’t the whole intellectual world stand or fall on this distinction: whether our intellectual understandings are mere inventions, or whether they are authentic discoveries? One purpose of cultivating […]
I find alphabet ideology in all its forms to be dangerous and offensive. My readers have picked up on that. So, after yet another encounter with a store clerk wearing pronoun pins, I thought I would share my way of dealing with my encounters with the alternatively pronouned. I treat the pronouned just exactly like […]
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