On Matters Of Race, On Matters Of

The University Is Our Culture's Assertion That What Is Made By The Mind Has Value And Can Convey Values.

As I Grew Up, I Knew That As A Building It Was On The Level Of Mount Olympus, The Pyramid Of Giza, The Nation's Capital, The Czar's Winter Palace, And The Louvre - Except, Of Course, That It Was Better Than All Of Those Inconsequential Places.

If A Family Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Biology, A City Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Will Amd Imagination? Through Mental Choices Making Artifice, Not Through Physical Reproduction.

Baseball Has The Largest Library Of Law And Love And Custom And Ritual, And Therefore, In A Nation That Fundamentally Believes It Is A Nation Under Law, Well, Baseball Is America's Most Privileged Version Of The Level Field.

It Is Not Enough To Offer A Smorgasbord Of Courses. We Must Insure That Students Are Not Just Eating At One End Of The Table.