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...especially pleasing to find that the one exception in recent years to the Department's de facto refusal to tenure from within is a stellar teacher whose course, Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice", is a staple of many undergraduate academic diets. Sandel not only earns top CUE guide ratings year after year, but is also a professor whose presence at lectures would not be redundant if his notes were typed, xeroxed and passed out at the start of the semester. He makes teaching a process, carefully engaging his students in questions of political theory. Learning is therefore not something done passively...
...political philosopher while still in his thirties--and thus win the approval of his department--is indicative of his unusual talent. It also reflects, however, the barriers which junior faculty members outside the hard sciences face. Although scholars of the hard sciences may establish their reputations while young through stellar empirical work, in the more subjective social sciences and humanities, esteem is won much more slowly...
...knowledge of the subject in question suspect. This is, after all, Harvard, which has traditionally been able to attract the nation's brightest undergraduates, graduate students, and professors to its hallowed halls. It is beyond my ability to conceive that Harvard would have the least bit of trouble hiring stellar, much less competent, teaching fellows (the same might be said about minority and women faculty); it is a question of initiative and not of feasibility...
Jeanne Simpson, who plays Judith, gives a stellar performance. Judith is an overly dramatic retired B-actress and Simpson plays her with just the right amount of dizziness combined with just a tad of michief...
During Harvard's run, the Crimson received some stellar play at the net from Anderson, Wallace and O'Shea...