Intelligence

Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.

Many brilliant people are rewarded early in life but get lapped by those with average intelligence later on.

When test scores are off the table, courage will take you further than knowing the right answer.

The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.

The Manfield amendments were a huge blow to Project Whorl. Panic set in among the Trustees as they scheduled urgent meetings with top officials from the Nixon administration, including the president himself. Out of those meetings came a brilliant idea. The Gang of Eight has to be briefed on all special access programs, even those that are waived... See more