Anthony Kronman's essay in the Boston Globe, "Why Are We Here?" (subtitled: "Colleges ignore life's biggest questions, and we all pay the price") is generating quite a bit of attention. See my contribution to the discussion in a symposium pulled together by the good folks at Comment magazine.
Update [01/10/2007]: Gideon Strauss, the indefatigable editor of Comment, has solicited a response from Kronman.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Harlequin NASCAR: I'M. NOT. KIDDING.
In the early 20th-century, Edmund Wilson Jr. thought he could glimpse the emergence of a genuinely American literary form. This has got to be it: Harlequin NASCAR.
[HT: my old friend Jeff Dudiak]
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