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...Booker Prize reads from “The Line of Beauty,” his novel about Thatcher-era London. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street. 6 p.m. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk. (DJH)Michael J. Sandel. If you can’t get into his popular core course “Justice,” you can still listen to the Bass Professor of Government at Harvard Michael J. Sandel discuss his newest book, entitled “Public Philosophy: Episodes and Arguments in American Civic Life...
...riddled” with other puzzles. Like: What’s a more powerful fart: Dropping a Silent-But-Deadly into one of those deceptively absorbent chairs in the Lamont reading room, or utilizing the superb acoustics of Sanders Theater to let off so loudly that Michael Sandel forgets whether or not you are supposed to push the fat dude onto the train to save those innocent people? Or: What would happen if the whole world farted at once? (Probably everyone would die or the ozone would disintegrate. Either that or…no one would notice!?!?) Like any good...
...that students taking the course through the Harvard Extension School are virtually guaranteed space in the course because they are able to watch the lectures on video. Participation in a class of 1,000 is already a relative term. And, with the debut of an online blog on which Sandel, students, and Teaching Fellows (TFs) regularly post, participation has become easier than ever...
...mercurial decision making. At the beginning of 2003’s Justice class, rumors swirled that this would be Sandel’s last turn at the podium, and the same thing is happening this year. Rumors like these swell class numbers to Cher Farewell Tour heights. Sandel should be firm about his future plans to teach the course, so that students can plan their class schedules logically. Ideally, the course would be taught every year, without fail. To allow for this, Sandel could recruit another lecturer to teach the course when he cannot...
...College and 150 students at the Extension School enrolled in Justice, it’s clear which course is ascendant above the rest. As the top Moral Reasoning Core among a meager field, and the potential to be the top Harvard College course among a field of giants, Sandel has a duty to open Justice to all comers, regardless of the cost...