“The truth is that no thinker worth remembering has some monolithic ‘project’ to undertake…”
The truth is that no thinker worth remembering has some monolithic “project” to undertake;...
Category Archives: Ideas
“Be very careful with the students that are sent to the office because one day you will have to go see them in their office”
“My father, of blessed memory, was an educator, and he told me to be...
“You have to be careful with your fundamentalism, because when you overstate your case, it can be so easily refuted”
You have to be careful with your fundamentalism, because when you overstate your case, it can be so easily refuted.
Rabbi Josh Yuter, “Biblical Criticism and Orthodox Judaism“ Yutopia Podcast #101 (27 February 2013).
“It is in the nature of intellectual life…to gravitate toward the extreme alternative position”
It is in the nature of intellectual life – and part of its value – to gravitate toward the extreme alternative position, since that is usually the one most in need of articulation…. We want big minds to voice extreme ideas, since our smaller minds already voice the saner ones.
Adam Gopnik, “Facing History,” The New Yorker (9 April 2012), 74.