Word on the street is you're requiring your students to read 'Persecution and the Art of Writing' (a good book no doubt but not his best), so you know the deal. The big ideas people, not the Kendis or the Hannah-Joneses, or even the McWhorters, but the Strausses, Barfields, and, perhaps on his best days, even the Lourys of this world are not going to come out and tell you what they really think about the Emperor, or his nakedness, but will conceal their actual views in ways that only intelligent readers will discern. No politician who has studied political philosophy, and who understands the essential difference between Aristotle and Machiavelli, can be foolish enough to grant to the masses that one needful but sorely lacking trait, civic virtue. And so the sheep will always need a shepherd...let's hope they pick the good one, the one that laid down his life for the sheep.
Word on the street is you're requiring your students to read 'Persecution and the Art of Writing' (a good book no doubt but not his best), so you know the deal. The big ideas people, not the Kendis or the Hannah-Joneses, or even the McWhorters, but the Strausses, Barfields, and, perhaps on his best days, even the Lourys of this world are not going to come out and tell you what they really think about the Emperor, or his nakedness, but will conceal their actual views in ways that only intelligent readers will discern. No politician who has studied political philosophy, and who understands the essential difference between Aristotle and Machiavelli, can be foolish enough to grant to the masses that one needful but sorely lacking trait, civic virtue. And so the sheep will always need a shepherd...let's hope they pick the good one, the one that laid down his life for the sheep.