A real reader creates her own canon, for it consists precisely of those books that she has used to create herself.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Monthly Archives: February 2024
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In a culture that has become obsessed with how our identities define us, far less time is spent considering how those identities just as often circumscribe. Just as emphasis on diversity can open minds, it can also harden preconceptions.
~ Pamela Paul via The New York Times
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Campus Life at
Minnesota State Mankato
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Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Washington University in St. Louis
turns 169 today
Washington University in St. Louis was founded on this day – February 22 – in 1853.
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Campus Life at
City University of London
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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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