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...that’s something because middle-schoolers are the most discriminating critics. Right now I’m finishing up my music for this year’s CityStep show. The theme is centered on paintings from which we make a song and dance. My team got Henri Rousseau??s Fauvist painting “The Sleeping Gypsy” so it’s been fun making music that “moves like a lion” or “sounds like the desert...
What gives? Who is this “general public,” anyway? A distant cousin to notary publics, or a newly interpreted incarnation of Rousseau??s social contract? Is it some sort of populist organization? I’ve sure as hell never signed up for it. In fact, I’m a little scared by the whole idea. What kind of a general public purports to speak for everyone and then goes around contradicting itself? This reminds me a bit of what Groucho Marx said—“I don?...
...teach American political thought, constitutional law and political philosophy. During the past 36 years, I have taken advantage of Middlebury’s winter term to study Plato’s Laws, Thucydides, Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning, Rousseau??s Emile, the French Revolution, Henry Kissinger, the Puritans, The Education of Henry Adams, Paradise Lost, some Shakespeare plays and criminal justice in America. I have taught many of these courses with other regular and visiting faculty members, including a former student who is a lawyer, and my brother, with whom I enjoyed teaching Shakespeare...
...Steven Pinker were redesigning Harvard’s core curriculum, all undergraduates would have to read three philosophers—Descartes, Locke, Rousseau??and then reject much of what they learned. In The Blank Slate, released last month, MIT’s renowned cognitive psychologist plies the tools of his discipline to dispel pervasive myths about human nature. The book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly...