Monthly Archives: September 2014

Thoreau To Obama: Play More Golf

By Robin Bates | Published: September 3, 2014

Thoreau would criticize contemporary Americans for working too hard.

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What College Clothing Choices Mean

By Robin Bates | Published: September 2, 2014

Jeffrey Eugenides captures college sartorial choices, and the reasons for them, in “The Marriage Plot.”

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Pledge Your Intellect to Freedom

By Robin Bates | Published: September 1, 2014

Brecht’s poem to students of workers and peasants reminds them that they are being educated thanks to the bloody struggles of those who came before.

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