A good read. ======== He means across academia, but that is also true in his case. Mr. Kagan resigned the deanship in April 1992, lobbing a parting bomb at the faculty that bucked his administration. His plans to create a special Western Civilization course at Yale—funded with a $20 million gift from philanthropist and Yale alum Lee Bass, who was inspired by... Read more
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Donald Kagan on Democracy – part 2
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctDonald Kagan on Democracy – part 1
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctA very good read. Will be a multi-part post. ===== By MATTHEW KAMINSKI New Haven, Conn. Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his “farewell lecture” here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War inspired comparisons to Edward Gibbon’s Roman history—uncorked a biting critique of American higher education. Universities, he proposed, are failing... Read more
Remembering Michael Kelly
April 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought Tags: CharacterI wish I would have known him… ======= Michael Kelly had an uncharitable term for the column you are about to read: “The Nice Column.” Nice columns—about ancient enmities overcome and people pulling together for the greater good and models of estimable human conduct and other Helen Keller-type themes—are the ones nice people complain about not finding often enough in the papers.... Read more
Stand for what you believe.
April 7 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtJohn Wooden – a great man. ===== From “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections,” published in 1997 by Hall of Fame UCLA basketball coach John Wooden: There was a rule against facial hair for players on UCLA basketball teams. One day Bill Walton came to practice after a ten-day break wearing a beard. I asked him, “Bill, have you forgotten something?” He... Read more
The Second Amendment …
April 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionSure gave me more to think about. Worth reading if you are at all interested in our way of life and the role the US Constitution plays in it. =========== September 2011 Edward J. Erler – Professor of Political Science, California State University, San Bernardino The following is adapted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on May 24, 2011, in... Read more
Build yourself a great story.
April 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, PhilosophySome good stuff. I’m pleasantly surprised. ========== From Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos’s commencement address at Princeton University, May 30, 2010: Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life—the life you author from scratch on your own—begins. How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions? Will you follow dogma, or will you be... Read more
