Monthly Archives: March 2008

Exhortation: Why the Liberal Arts? Is There A Lasting Good? (And Why the University of Dallas?)

After see­ing a whole class of under­grad­u­ates sit like bumps on a log and not say any­thing or reg­is­ter any sort of reac­tion when the Get­tys­burg Address was being intro­duced, and then see­ing more bumps on a log at the grad­u­ate level when the class was focused on Rousseau’s Sec­ond Discourse/the prob­lem of whether any …

March 30, 2008 – 8:18 pm | By ashok | Posted in plato, politics | Tagged , | Comments (3)

The Educated Self Today

How fas­ci­nat­ing is that class Whose only mem­ber is Me! Sap­pho, Tiberius and I Hold forth beside the sea. What is cosier than the shore Of a lake turned inside out? How do all these other peo­ple Dare to be about? — from Auden’s “Islands” 1. So all the stu­dents came back from break on Wednes­day, …

March 28, 2008 – 11:34 pm | By ashok | Posted in education, personal, politics | Comments (1)

Links, 3/25, and a Brief Note on C-Span

Josh argues that Sen­a­tor McCain could do a bet­ter job of just being vis­i­ble in the media. Jen­nifer has mouth­wa­ter­ing pic­tures of pasta and pizza up. Ario’s “Objects in Space” entry gives much to think about. Kristine’s entry on how jour­nal­ists regard blog­gers is some­thing I will prob­a­bly expand on later. It is really curi­ous that more …

March 25, 2008 – 2:49 pm | By ashok | Posted in links, politics | Comments (0)

The air is dry…

…and feels filled with par­ti­cles as it blows. While it is sunny out­side, these con­di­tions and the (rel­a­tive) cold are wreak­ing havoc with my lungs. Got up this morn­ing and took a Clar­itin + a neb­u­lizer treat­ment + 2 puffs of the inhaler and only then did the lungs start calm­ing down some­what. Every­one else …

March 24, 2008 – 9:52 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (0)

In case I’m quiet…

…the next few days, of course, are Good Fri­day, Holy Sat­ur­day and Easter Sun­day. I assume I will have lit­tle or no com­puter access those days, and Col­legium is singing those days any­way. So in case I’m not on at all, that’s the rea­son. Have a happy Easter, everyone.

March 20, 2008 – 6:09 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (3)