The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
The venerable emeritus ...
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I guess I'm just a natural warrior.
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.