Students need to see thinking in action. Instead they are shown thinking accomplished, and the two look nothing alike.
Mar 172023
Mar 162023
The cure for writer’s block is speaker’s block.
Mar 152023
The complacent success begins as a resentful failure.
Mar 142023
We preach for our politics, and for our religion, but preachers for art are known as “critics” and justly regarded as an alien species.
Mar 132023
Superlatives have driven out comparatives, as bad money drives out good.
Mar 102023
In the end, lies may be no match for truth, but no one knows, and the end is far, far away.
Mar 092023
Things are not always what they seem, but that’s the way to bet.
Mar 082023
Heidegger was not a bad philosopher because he became a Nazi. But he may have become a Nazi because he was a bad philosopher.
Mar 072023
The East, the West, the classical and Christian, the medieval and modern, the peasantry, the proletariat, the bourgeoisie, the 18th, 19th, 20th century — what intellectual malfeasance shelters under the definite article!
Mar 062023
The more you hope a story is true, the likelier it is to be false.