flâneur

William Mahoney

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  • To understand the human condition, and to appreciate humankind’s greatest achievements, you still need to read The Iliad—all of it.
    The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books - The Atlantic
  • Every year, they tell Howley that, despite enjoying what they learned in Lit Hum, they plan to instead get a degree in something more useful for their career.
    The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books - The Atlantic
  • “The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct,” prosecutors wrote. “Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one.”
    Jack Smith Lays Out New Evidence in Trump’s Jan. 6 Case - The New York Times
  • in my experience, people who have been through Directed Studies or the Humanities major are well-positioned to think and write carefully, which are the requisite abilities of a good lawyer.
    Humanities Major Alumni | The Humanities Program
  • Matt: I would encourage them not to think of themselves as facing a stark choice between a meaningful, but useless, education in the Humanities and a practical, but soulless, focus on pre-professional training. I think it’s possible to both fully immerse yourself in the life of the mind while at Yale and also take modest steps to position yourself for a fulfilling career, and that the two can complement each other.
    Humanities Major Alumni | The Humanities Program
  • Cicero once told his brother that Cicero’s consulship was the realization of Plato’s dream of the philosopher-king.3
    Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  • In an interview for the Paris Review, she says: “I try to write books that can be read in one way by a literal-minded reader, and in quite another way by a reader alert to symbolic abbreviation and parodistic elements. And yet, it's the same book—or nearly. A trompe l'oeil, a work of ‘as if.’”
    Joyce Carol Oates | Poetry Foundation
  • I am no longer surrounded by my brothers, men who would undoubtedly die for me, and I for them. Men who fought to my left and right as bullets chased us through the darkest of nights. Now, I sit alongside peers that were born after 9/11 — to whom war is a faraway concept, blurred by distance and experienced through screens.
    NGUYEN: Out of place - Yale Daily News
  • Shortly after leaving the island, they are caught up by a whirlwind and taken to the Moon,[10][12] where they find themselves embroiled in a full-scale war between Endymion the king of the Moon and Phaethon the king of the Sun over colonization of the Morning Star.[10][13][a] Both armies include bizarre hybrid lifeforms.[14][10] The armies of the Sun win the war by clouding over the Moon and blocking out the Sun's light.[10][15] Both parties come to a peace agreement.[16] Lucian describes life on the Moon and how it is different from life on Earth.[10][17]
    A True Story - Wikipedia
  • The project expands our understanding of daily life in ancient communities, showing how individuals were making sense of the world and coping with conflict, vulnerability, competition, anxiety, desire, and loss — all while conjuring the gods and powers of the Underworld.
    Jessica Lamont | Yale Department of Classics
  • immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data
    Curius / Onboarding