From Dr. Naomi Wolf: “I returned to my Alma Mater, Yale University, for my class’ 40th reunion. On the way I reflected on how Yale punishes those who step outside of its strictures, as I did in reporting on my having been molested at 19 by Dr. Harold Bloom, and […]
“Can You Go Home Again? Yale’s 40th College Reunion”
Or: Why Things Are the Way They Are Can one go home again? What is privilege? What is inclusion? What is “meaning”? How do all these work to reward and punish and thus to police our societies and cultures, our knowledge base itself, our moral norms — in the subtlest, […]
My Friends are Dying of Heart Attacks
A 50th birthday celebration and reunion is marred by multiple deaths I’m headed out to Maui to celebrate my brother’s 50th birthday. One of our oldest friends—a 53-year-old named Dan who was my roommate in graduate school—was scheduled to be on my flight, but he isn’t because he died of […]