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...view of nature as having infinite resources and society as being destined to achieve ultimate prosperity by tapping those resources is the same utopian aspiration, he argues, that “the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Mall of America, and the Williams-Sonoma catalog partake of.” But in an era where criticisms of Chicago Boy free-market capitalism are as trendy as Katy Perry songs, Stoll’s book offers little in the way of originality or groundbreaking argumentation.Most annoyingly, Stoll seems to conflate a belief that the Earth has infinite resources with...
...anxious potential crackles through the atmosphere; it’s the same potential that can resonate in the remote stacks of a rare book room or in a long-ignored film archive. This is the potential of new information, of a new breed of art. Much of the catalog in Twisted Village is composed of records, CDs, even cassettes that the casual music listener will never, ever hear—music that waits, coiled spring-like, to be explored. Casual observers will point to an apparent tautological problem with the type of music and type of patron that...
...Rather, my vexation is with the vast majority of Harvard students who do not even take the time to peruse the MIT course catalog and do not pursue academic interests beyond the gates of Harvard. For science and engineering concentrators this is all but unforgivable. Nobel laureates, inventors, scientists and engineers of all stripes are actively disseminating cutting-edge knowledge to all who will listen just blocks away, and almost everyone here seems to ignore it. Maybe Harvard’s future scientists could use a little more of the pre-professional attitude shared by their financially oriented peers...
...hard to believe that so few Harvard undergraduates even glance at the MIT course catalog, much less sign up for a course. Yes, there is a form to fill out. Yes, the MIT course catalog uses numbers in place of words. Yes, it can take twenty minutes to get to MIT. Yes, the MIT semester starts a few days earlier. And yes, there are literally thousands of courses offered in the Faculty of Arts of Sciences alone each semester. But none of these barriers are sufficiently high or compelling enough to forestall a student’s desire to learn?...
...Ultimately, I don’t care whether every student finds an interesting course to take at MIT—it may be enough for some just to push beyond what they are comfortable with in the Harvard course catalog. But I do care that it seems that only economics concentrators are willing to spend a little extra energy to enhance their learning. I hope the rest of you prove me wrong this year...