- On Walter Lippmann’s intellectual formation, via NYRB: “The young Zeus was happier among Harvard’s professors than among his peers. William James hosted Lippmann at his house for weekly tea. The philosopher George Santayana brought him along to dinners in Boston. Graham Wallas, a visiting professor from England and an early member of the Fabians, treated Lippmann as his apprentice, invited him to stay at his home in London, and dedicated his book The Great Society (1914) to him. Together they instilled in Lippmann a sense that he was living and thinking in unprecedented times and that the enormous modern cities, factories, and newspapers were rewriting the rules of the world and calling all its old truths into question.”
- Trying to improve on Jennifer Frey’s defense of the humanities: N. Ángel Pinillos of ASU in the Chronicle writes, “There is a real, identifiable competence that the humanities, done well, build in a person, and that competence does not exist in the same form anywhere else in the curriculum.” Eric Adler responds.
- The Storeys write on the future of “legacy higher education” in the new National Affairs.
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