Only Socrates Knew, After A Lifetime Of

All Literature Up To Today Is Sexist. The Muses Never Sang To The Poets About Liberated Women. It's The Same Old Chanson From The Bible And Homer Through Joyce And Proust.

Social Science And Humanities ... Have A Mutual Contempt For One Another, The Former Looking Down On The Latter As Unscientific, The Latter Regarding The Former As Philistine. ... The Difference Comes Down To The Fact That Social Science Really Wants To Be Predictive, Meaning That Man Is Predictable, While The Humanities Say That He Is Not.

The Students [of The 60's] Substituted Conspicuous Compassion For Their Parents' Conspicuous Consumption.

Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A Means To Avoid Testing Our Own Prejudices And Asking, For Example, Whether Men Are Really Equal Or Whether That Opinion Is Merely A Democratic Prejudice.

It Was Not Necessarily The Best Of Times In America When Catholics And Protestants Were Suspicious Of And Hated One Another; But At Least They Were Taking Their Beliefs Seriously, And The More Or Less Satisfactory Accommodations They Worked Out Were Not Simply The Result Of Apathy About The State Of Their Souls.