My favorite back-to-school reading this year has been Alex Priou’s Musings on Plato’s Symposium. I hurry to add that I’ve long been out of school, but I did pick up the habit of reading there, and what’s more American than lifelong learning? I knew the author’s reputation and so hurried to read his musings. Almost nobody muses these days, I’ve noticed, but it’s deeply human to be thoughtful without being serious, to be playful without being silly. There’s much of the life of an intelligent man that has been driven out of public life and therefore out of our private lives, too.
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