Campaign Stops and the Klan- July 7, 2008 A pair of interesting pieces in today's Wall Street Journal. First a book review of Michael Cohen's Live from the Campaign Trail by David Shribman '76:This year, so far, we have heard two speeches that aspired to greatness: Mitt Romney's treatise on religious freedom and Barack Obama's "more perfect union" remarks on race relations in America. Both were ambitious and provocative, but they were also derivative, haunted by echoes from nearly a half-century ago, when Sen. John F. Kennedy...http://dartlog.net/2008/07/campaign-stops-and-klan.php Summertime TV- July 3, 2008 A discussion between author Tom Wolfe and former Dartmouth Professor (and neuroscience expert) Michael Gazzaniga.http://dartlog.net/2008/07/summertime-tv.php |