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November 2, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For the October Quarterly Discussion, we read four chapters from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. As usual, I distributed some questions beforehand intended to help start the conversation. Each discussion lasts 1.5 hours in which I (mostly) lead. I enjoy the responsibility …
February 9, 2018 Thanks to Carter Vance, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. The idea of the “generational conflict”, written in sociopolitical terms, is a notion at once ancient and modern. One can go back to the writings of Plato and find tropes which sound curiously similar to the proverbial …
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