This stuff at/near UVA is utterly sobering. Again, so sad. Devastating. Senseless.And I wonder how informed most of our people are--and what we can do about it.
Have you actually read the google manifesto?
Communist Manifesto?
The Bible/Koran/Talmud?
Little Black Sambo?
Mein Kampf?
Etc...?
Does your school's library have copies available to its community members? Or the capacity for librarians to show students how to access these books online?
The Great Books programs at St. John's, Shimer, and Columbia are the first that come to mind. But then there are lots of others. And does it matter?
Should every adult in America have read Shakespeare, Schopenhauer, Thoreau, bell hooks, Virginia Woolf, the Upanishads, or the Tractatus?
How do we teach truth, beauty, empathy, and virtue? Do we even want to?
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