Category Archives: Of Education

Privacy, Liberty, and the Search for Truth in Milton (Introduction)

Posted on June 9, 2014 by d_a_harper

                                                         he unobserved Home to his mother’s house private returned                                                          –Paradise Regain’d IV.638-9   A Note About This Blog: When I set out a bit over a year ago to write blog posts about Milton once a month or … Continue reading →

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“Perfected Knowledge:” Milton’s Crisis in the Humanities

Posted on February 17, 2014 by d_a_harper

Recently, Nicholas Kristof’s NY Times column sounded a clarion call to lure professors out of their ivory towers and into the public realm. Kristof professes alarm that academics have “marginalized themselves” by becoming increasingly specialized, and by participating in a … Continue reading →

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