There was a time, we thought, that the good guys got the bad guys. Justice, it seemed, was swift and fair. Punishment, we imagined, fit the crime. The cell door slammed and that was that. Where did it end? With corrupt or lenient judges? With the dumbing-down of jury panels? No, it had […]
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Murdoch: Or, When They Do It to Themselves
July 13, 2011I love dead poets, and dead philosophers too. Thank goodness for liberal arts educations and their classical referents. They won’t make you rich like an MBA does, but they help to make important sense of the world. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is among the truest of insights: people and institutions that have the […]
Ichabod's Kin 