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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? exists in this vein of informed literary analysis for (quasi) popular consumption. Bloom wrote much of an original draft, but later discarded it and started anew. A life-threatening health crisis??when he was, as he said, “sliced up as so many people”—made him re-examine the work and the importance of literature to himself. After “being at the gates of death,” Bloom said, “I took one look at the book and simply wrote...
...West’s gospel today is of the secular sort. He preaches that democracy is “in crisis?? and that “we need to be reminded of the intellectual and political resources available in the democratic tradition that we can build on in order to deal” with those threats...
...entitled “The Future of Black Studies” for the Dubois Institute at Harvard University. He raised a number of critiques of the academic discipline at this moment in time and offered a glimpse of what he believes is the solution to the “crisis?? in African and African-American studies. With the impending, acrimonious departures of Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo and Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies Marcyliena Morgan, it is time to talk frankly about the state...
...live with their future House-mates. This suggested solution to better integrating first-years into the broader College is ill-conceived. The freedom to choose blockmates is crucial to preserving the kind of House community we currently enjoy. Moreover, as a potential answer to the first-year advising crisis??and this word is not used lightly—the Yale-style system is only a recipe for disaster...
Annan described a “triple crisis?? that “has challenged the U.N. as a system and the U.S. as a global leader,” namely the crises of collective security, damaged international solidarity and intolerance among different cultures and faiths...