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...he’s not afraid to veer from the literary, either, as anyone in First Parish Church learned on Monday. There to promote his new book—Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?—Bloom also waxed on a number of topics, including religion and “our current American political debacle...
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? exists in this vein of informed literary analysis for (quasi) popular consumption. Bloom wrote much of an original draft, but later discarded it and started anew. A life-threatening health crisis—when he was, as he said, “sliced up as so many people”—made him re-examine the work and the importance of literature to himself. After “being at the gates of death,” Bloom said, “I took one look at the book and simply wrote...
...book is dedicated to examining wisdom writing throughout the ages, beginning with Job and Ecclesiastes and moving through canonical Western literature until the 20th century, ending with Freud and Proust. Each section is dedicated to a pair of writers and thinkers, with intensely close and sometimes confusedly compacted analysis that is characteristic of Bloom’s writing...
...action we did, we probably would seriously regret it in the long run. Saddam certainly had ambitions that, given time to mature, would have affected all the world, greatly to our detriment. Now that we have taken steps to set things right in Iraq, we need to pray for wisdom for our leaders so they will see this through to a just end for the Iraqis...
...years ago, four students became seriously ill from alcohol poisoning at the Harvard-Yale Game. Two years later, then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 instituted a ban on kegs as a strategy to combat binge drinking at Harvard-Yale. At the time the wisdom of the ban was debatable, although the end goal of reducing health and safety risks to students was unquestionably admirable. The most persuasive arguments opposing the ban centered on the ineffectiveness and arbitrariness of eliminating kegs. And indeed, at the 2002 Harvard-Yale Game, about 30 fans were transported...