“Always we are chasing words, and always words recede. But the greatest experiences are those for which we have no expression. To live only on that which we can say is to wallow in the dust, instead of digging up the soil. How shall we ignore the…
Campus Conversation on Values
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March 16, 2012
Jelani Harvey (Columbia) on Economic Inequality
In the Declaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers stated all men have rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It is then rather shameful, that in America, there are 46.2 million people living in poverty according to the most…
Earlier this month I had the great opportunity of eating breakfast with hosting Gordon Wood and David McCullough, two of the greatest historians of our time. I listened to their conversation about how the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of…
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