Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts is a tidy New England college campus with the high-saturation landscaping typical of well-funded institutions. The hedges are beautifully trimmed, the pathways are swept clean. Red-brick buildings from the 19th century fraternize with high glass facades and renovated interiors.
~ Jordan Kisner via The New York Times Magazine
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ Milan Kundera
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You can draw the blinds in a brothel, but people still know what you’re doing.
~ Iain Banks
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Do I dare disturb the universe?
~ T.S. Eliot
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The quintessential Levy subject is a member of the intelligentsia, a historian studying male tyrants, a poet, a doctoral student in anthropology. These characters are 21st-century Herzogs, who can’t help but channel their neuroses through the prism of their intellectual fixations.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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Jonathan Haidt | Why we Don’t Trust our Governments
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Intersectionality is a religious cult that’s dominated higher education for nearly a decade with the shallow but certain idea that power structures are everything, the Neanderthal view that blunt force trumps human dignity.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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