Students Now Arrive At The University Ignorant

Openness, As Currently Conceived, Is A Way Of Making Surrender To Whatever Is Most Powerful, Or Worship Of Vulgar Success, Look Principled.

Freedom Of The Mind Requires Not Only, Or Not Even Especially The Absence Of Legal Constraints But The Presence Of Alternative Thoughts.

[rock And The Intellectual Left] Must Both Be Interpreted As Parts Of The Cultural Fabric Of Late Capitalism. Their Success Comes From The Bourgeois' Need To Feel That He Is Not Bourgeois.

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.

Nietzsche Said The Newspaper Had Replaced The Prayer In The Life Of The Modern Bourgeois , Meaning That The Busy, The Cheap, The Ephemeral, Had Usurped All That Remained Of The Eternal In His Daily Life.