It turns out that the author of A Beautiful Mind has an impressive intellect as well.

Occasionally, you actually do get some unique insights from academia, unique to academia anyway.


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“Why is it that the language of allegory, once generally understood by our culture as a whole, has been banished from our nation’s sacred sites so completely that one needs to spot naïve roadside memorials to find unambiguous statements of grief and love?”— Michael J. Lewis, the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams

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Mitt Romney also went to Harvard, though he spent most of his time on what the intellectuals consider to be the wrong side of the Charles, where the business school is found.—UVA historian James Ceaser

 

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Andrew Ferguson,  a veteran journalist who provided a helpful chronicle of the comedy of errors that is the college application process in his book Crazy U, will be the featured speaker at Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night on October 26, 2011 from 6-8 PM. Free food will be provided.

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The same type of “Accuracy Crisis” exists in the main stream media and among journalists, just as it does in academia.
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