Jonathan Last

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June 4th, 2013

This commencement address is basically Leon Wieseltier’s The Things We Think and Do Not Say, right?

In any case, it is awesome.

James Versluis June 4, 2013 at 10:07 pm

Hey Last, remember what you said was the “Worst Thing Ever on the Internet”? You were clearly right:

http://gawker.com/the-rob-ford-crack-video-might-be-gone-511254183

Joe Sixpack June 7, 2013 at 9:25 am

…said the guy who hasn’t seen hardly anything worthwhile produced from a Humanities Department at any University anywhere.

The Humanities Departments at Universities are a cruel joke twisted by ideologues into a inhuman burlesque.

Nedward June 10, 2013 at 4:50 am

I saw David Brooks at a commencement last month for a graduate in the family. After the obligatory lame social-science jokes he shifted abruptly to spirituality–with surprising power, relating the biography of Dorothy Day (before several thousand people with no idea who she was, I guarantee it, faculty/administrators included). Great stuff within an otherwise stiff and boilerplate ceremony, and it completely overshadowed the visiting mining executive who was being picketed by about 3 or 4 of the students

Nedward June 10, 2013 at 5:09 am

I wonder if Neil Postman would’ve “liked” that TNR link on his Facebook dossier…

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