By Lindsey Meyers on May 4, 2009
As a freshman who lives in Keeney Quad, I often walk by the John Carter Brown Library, where the words “Speak to the Past and It Shall Teach Thee” are fittingly carved in stone. Some might regard this exhortation as more than passing strange. But, as a nascent classicist, I particularly like it.
That is [...]
Posted in Brown University, Lead | Tagged brown twtp, January 2006, third world center, twtp, Volume IV Number I
By Lindsey Meyers on September 9, 2007
Michael Moore is to modern America what the sophists were to ancient Athens. In sum and substance, Moore is an expert in devising superficially plausible, but ultimately specious, arguments.
However, where the sophists made their devious arguments in the Athenian agora, Moore presents his on movie screens throughout America.
A dramatic case in point is Moore’s [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Lindsey Meyers on February 1, 2007
James Joyce once observed that “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.” But what if existence were even worse than Joyce imagined? What if we lived in a present with no hope of a future, one where human history was about to end? Would reality become a nightmare [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Lindsey Meyers on October 20, 2006
According to the New Yorker magazine, two Princeton economists have found that taller people are smarter and wealthier than shorter people. Not surprisingly, these economists have been accused of a new form of prejudice against shorter people, one that I have decided to term “shortism.”
The curious thing is that even tall people feel that they [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
