A Rebuttal from the Third Tier

'What the Harvard Professor Doesn’t Wanna Get'

Earl Yarington at the Baltimore Post-Examiner.

"In his recent article entitled 'Offshore Core,' Harvard history professor James Hankins argues that universities are abandoning a traditional liberal arts education, excluding such writers as Plato, Voltaire, Shakespeare, and even Thomas Aquinas, the 'great thinkers.'
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"New Criticism is a term used for those that think a work can stand by itself, be timeless, and is of truth. To current literary critics like me, with a hint (hint, hint) of mental health training, we call this magical thinking. ..."