Letters

Somebody’s Bad Day Just Got a Little Worse

As read the article I could see squalls of red handwriting, question marks, and those long arrows telling me to switch paragraph order like on my essays in High School.

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I came to read Strauss through reading Bloom and I came to read Bloom through reading Plato and I came to read Plato because I was in the Great Books Program at the University of Notre Dame.

To offer an argument to both Brian Leiter and Another UofC Kid, perhaps no one in philosophy or political science departments take Strauss seriously because no one in philosophy or political science departments take Plato seriously. “Long live Karl Popper!” they shout as they try to produce mathematical models that hash out a modernist utopia. Or perhaps they ironically yawp, “Long live Derrida!” as they play Wittgensteinian word games that justify their post-modern nihilism. —Steve McDevitt

Prediction: Under pressure from higher-ups, Dold and staff endorse Obama. Disdainful of it all, they offer a weak argument and barely explain the “seismic shift,” because they know it’s all about making money. —DAS

Driscoll, I thought it was the policy of the LAT not to endorse presidential candidates, its machinations for So Cal pols you note aside. —Flyby Reader

“As the Times didn’t spell out its own position on undermining…”