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Sometimes it's for scientific reasons; sometimes it's quest driven. I think it's a very natural place for the two of us to go. We are curious, we're both introverted most of the time, and so a 100-day journey really excites...
What's Next After reading your forecasts for the future and Lev Grossman's article "The Quest for Cool" [Sept. 29], I've concluded that I have never been cool, I have no desire ever to be cool and those who think they are cool really aren't. Rob Nance Westerville...
...politicians working in the private sector would be comical for their simplicity, if they didn’t attack so viciously many students’ noble visions of what it means to be successful in life. A student dreaming of becoming a CEO, for example, finds fulfillment in the quest for wealth (see Adam Smith on the nobility of such a motive...
...liberal activist are fundamentally the same: The activist finds his own fulfillment in activism and the manipulation of power structures that accompanies it. (Remember that, in social movements, there is always a demagogue who stands to gain. “Hasta la victoria siempre!”) As the quest for wealth is no more self-interested or self-gratifying than is the quest for power, Harvard’s budding businessmen, investment bankers, and CEOs do not deserve to be singled out for browbeating and moral outrage...
...from my father—something generic, along the lines of “I thought you might find this interesting.” The title was Finding God at Harvard. I remember being vaguely surprised that someone had written a book on such a specific order of spiritual quest, but my thoughts didn’t extend far beyond that. Then, around November came The Search for God at Harvard, evidently the book that predated and inspired Finding God at Harvard. Christmas brought me a copy of The Search for God, and in early spring came The Politics...