Sublime

People like him show that a deeper intimacy with nature is possible and that this intimacy does not have to rely on the obliterative arrogance of Western culture.

I thought I could stand apart, but looking back, I see that the parts of my thinking that were most reinforced were those that most dovetailed with those around me, and the parts that were hardest to hold were those that did not.

but it’s the same old ‘Keep the Colored man down’ world here.

Hume looked unprepossessing. “He exhibited that preoccupied stare of the thoughtful scholar that so commonly impresses the undiscerning as imbecile,” writes a biographer.

But virtues should be signaled, and the signalers should act to make their virtues manifest.

THE PEOPLE QUESTION

Diversify your information sources.

Elite colleges are admitting primarily those students whose social background allows them to provide an application profile that fits what the universities regard as “their kind of student,” much as it was in the 1920s. On the margins, they accept students of protected classes who may well deserve to be there on their own merits. What is excluded a