By Alex Schulman on July 7, 2009
Dear John/Jane Doe,
Let me begin by saying that I envy you your coming four years at Brown, despite anything I might say in the course of this missive. I still find it more than a bit depressing that I will not be returning to cozy College Hill this fall, as had come to seem routine, [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged August 2003, Volume II Number I
By Alex Schulman on July 7, 2009
Under the heading “Comedy and Tragedy: 2002-2003 School Year” the “Young America’s Foundation” (www.yaf.org) lists college courses at schools they variously deem “bizarre and ideological” or simply “ridiculous.” The schools are split up by category, with the Ivy League coming first.
As one who has written frequently about our current academic malaise and the grotesque decline [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged November 2002, Volume I Number I
By Alex Schulman on May 1, 2003
The modern left/right divide, which dates to the pre-terror days of the French Revolution, has grown calcified, stale, and altogether useless. Both” conservative” and “liberal” philosophies, as we now know them—for the two designations meant something quite different only a century ago—suffer from internal contradictions that render their hard line ideologues intellectually bankrupt. What is [...]
Posted in Features, Lead | Tagged May 2003, Volume I Number III
By Alex Schulman on March 1, 2003
As famed M.I.T. linguist and political dissident Avram Noam Chomsky, arguably the most important intellectual alive approaches his eighth decade on earth, and perhaps his fifth as the chief fly in the ointment of American political culture, he shows little indication of modifying any of his hardline and absolutist beliefs. He certainly did not seem [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged March 2003, Volume I Number II
