In Columbus, Ohio Students United Against Apartheid staged a demonstration outside the building where the Ohio State University trustees were meeting Friday. Students were objecting to the university’s $7 million worth of investments in U.S. companies that do business in South Africa. [May 4, 1985] Harvard must not remain on the wrong side of history, […]
Imagine it is the morning of November 17th, 1978. George Steiner was visiting Oxford University, conducting research for his book Antigones, which he would publish six years later. He is sitting down to breakfast with the other dons, leafing through the days newspapers. He picks up a copy of that day’s Oxford Mail, and as […]
Xenocrates (396-313 BCE) was the third head of the Platonic Academy. He studied with Plato and had traveled with him to Sicily. He is most well known for developing, from Plato’s texts (e.g. the Symposium) and teachings, a theory of demons. Writing centuries later, Plutarch tells us how Xenocrates used to teach his theory of […]