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Davidson ends his book with an ominous image: While Aeschines is prosecuting Timarchus in 346 BCE for practicing homosexual prostitution in his youth—a warning sign in Athens of tyranny??he portrays an “anti-Athens” of hollow zones and derelict buildings that “lurks still in the city’s crevices” amidst “unbridled appetites and animal passions”—waiting “like the abysmal Charybdis to swallow Athens down.” It’s still eerie...
...perhaps there is something to be said about tyranny in the running of a university. Not for tyranny??s sake—and not, as perhaps some conservative critics might frame it, for the enlightened administration of a glut of unruly students incapable of self-governance. Instead, perhaps we at Harvard need the unitary power of administrative authority to maintain our equality with each other...
It’s over my House list that I first read the open invitation from Andrew P. Winerman ’04 to join his newly formed “anti-tyranny?? group for Liberals (with a capital “L”), as in those who wish to Liberate the world from Leaders besides our own. Let’s Go! Immediately, a flurry of confused responses followed from good citizens who took him at his word—thereby missing the point. Would-be critics were up all night filing amicus briefs...
Work. I hear that you are assessed via a Grade Point Average. This sounds like tyranny??you must have to, like, do work all the time. We, in contrast, are only assessed in eight exams at the end of our final year, which has the obvious benefit of meaning that no one does any work until several months before they graduate, and can waste their time writing columns commenting on?...
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