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...Gisela Striker—the philosophy department’s only specialist in ancient philosophy??recently submitted her plan to retire at the end of next year and said she has already “given up” on seeking a replacement...
...confederate nationalism” or maybe even a “mother of invention”! We promise to spray your card to Registrar Barry S. Kane with your favorite perfume.Harvard Philosophy Review: Our school of “Nacho Cheesier Thought” is going to be philosophy??s next great wave, and we’re going to boogey board that baby right to the top!Harvard University Women in Business Magazine: We have some more oxymorons to fill your issue: military intelligence, pretty ugly, liquid gas, and jumbo shrimp.Harvard Economic Review: We sure need...
...virtually content-less core curricula at most of our leading universities, including Harvard’s new one and old one, involves 16 semester courses. Only three of the 16 courses—one dealing with American literature, one dealing with English literature, and one dealing with political philosophy??revolve around the reading of classic works...
...touch with former University President Lawrence H. Summers?MJS: We were together recently at a conference in Europe on what makes an educated person in the 21st century. We voiced our usual disagreements and then had an enjoyable dinner afterwards.7.FM: Your book “Public Philosophy?? suggests that the left influence national mores to emphasize the common good over an individual right to fairness. Could the right theoretically use a similar vision of common good to justify its agenda?MJS: I wouldn’t say that the common good should be pursued at the expense...
...course not. But it’s also time that we stopped treating school like Las Vegas, as if what happens at college stays at college. The undergraduate years, the theory goes, are for making mistakes—hooking up with your suitemate, say, or majoring in philosophy??with limited consequences. There’s good reason for this exceptionalism: If everything that happened in college were suddenly in the public domain, students would feel less free to take risks—although it’s debatable whether getting trashed and uploading your drunken rendition...