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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 of organizing these discussions because I get to begin with the questions that I have about a specific text.
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 old man ranting at about the indolent youth invading his front lawn.
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