“One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a humanistic education has to do… — Joshua Rothman Copy Share Image
“One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about,… — Joshua Rothman Copy Share Image
“[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves and grow more appealing, and funnier. You wouldn’t want all of intellectual life to be that social--we couldn’t make progress that way. But there’s… — Joshua Rothman Copy Share
