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...Late Registration, the syllabus returns to Whitman's Song of Myself. There are skits ridiculing the impoverished members of a made-up black fraternity (Broke Phi Broke), while the song Gold Digger pleads with women to stand by working-class men because "He got that ambition baby look at his eyes/ This week he mopping floors next week it's the fries...
While sections are devoted to the rudiments of theory, the dozen or so lectures per semester feature Feldstein or one of his colleagues expounding upon a field of economics of interest to them. In addition, the syllabus assigns scores of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals that both analyze economic issues and recommend policy...
While sections are devoted to the rudiments of theory, the dozen or so lectures per semester feature Feldstein or one of his colleagues expounding upon a field of economics of interest to them. In addition, the syllabus assigns scores of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals that both analyze economic issues and recommend policy...
...radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous �migr� intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet. In the late '80s, when the culture wars erupted, the Nobel laureate was forced to defend the canon of Western literature against "politically correct" students and professors eager to indict that tradition as a syllabus of dead white males. But he actually belonged to no faction, identified with no cause. Like Ijah Brodsky, the lawyer in his story Cousins, he did no marching. Not even to a different drummer, like Thoreau. No marching, period...
This year’s syllabus reflects a more organized approach to the class, with preplanned themes for each week ranging from “The Western and the Mythologizing of Misogyny” to “Food as Sex in Cinema...