Louis Menand’s Three Theories | National Review

In a June 6 New Yorker article, Louis Menand mused that something is amiss in college education. His evidence included such works such as the Academically Adrift study by Richard Arum and Josipa Ro…

The story told in The Metaphysical Club runs through the lives of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Civil War hero who became the dominant legal thinker of his time; his best friend as a young man, William James, son of an eccentric moral louis menand einstein letter philosopher, brother of a great novelist, and the father of modern psychology in America; and the brilliant and troubled logician, scientist, and founder of ...

Letters to a Young Writer by Louis Menand | Narrative Magazine

Louis Menand is widely considered the foremost modern scholar of American studies. He is the author of several works, including The Marketplace of Ideas (2010), American Studies, and most notably The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize. Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard.

Louis Menandacious - Michael Lewis, Commentary Magazine

This is the significance of Louis Menand’s The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, which seeks to refute the “barbarians have seized the castle” scenario proposed by Bloom and his successors. 1 Written by a privileged academic insider—Menand is a professor of English at Harvard and a regular ...

Letters from readers | Harvard Magazine

Menand is correct when he states that the universities are overproducing Ph.D.s in relation to the availability of academic positions, but he fails to mention an important factor that led to this imbalance. In 1986 the mandatory retirement age for most professions was lifted, but not for professors. At the time, it was widely heralded that by the year 2000 thousands of positions would open up ...

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The Liberal Arts as Guideposts in the 21st Century

Jan 29, 2012 · A liberal-arts education, which Louis Menand defined in The Marketplace of Ideas as “a background mentality, a way of thinking, a kind of intellectual DNA that …

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Louis Menand writes about a letter from Albert Einstein to Eric Gutkind in which Einstein elucidates some of his thoughts on religion and the existence of God, which recently fetched $2.9 million at auction at Christie’s in New York.

T.S. Eliot: The Poet and Anti-Semite, A New Look | Jewish Week

louis menand einstein letter Sep 20, 2011 · Louis Menand’s review of the new T.S. Eliot suggests how. He argues that despite Eliot’s renown as a reformer of poetry–a true Modern, up there with Joyce–he never rejected the poetic ...

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