Alumni response to Brooks in NYTimes
A guest post from Core alumna Erin McDonagh, CAS ’10): New York Times columnist David Brooks recently discussed the results, 250 years later, of the split between the French Enlightenment and the...
View ArticleNabokov & His Literature Class
In his article titled ‘An A from Nabokov’, Edward Jay Epstein recounts his experience from Lit 311 at Cornell University, where he studied many of the works that the Core explores in CC202. Here is an...
View ArticleWilliam Blake’s ‘The Tyger’
Relating to CC202′s study of Blake’s work, here is an image from ‘The Tyger’
View ArticleCriticism of ‘Jane Austen, Game Theorist’
Relating to CC202′s study of Jane Austen’s work is an article from Slate, in which Adelle Waldman gives her amusing criticism of a recent book that discusses Austen’s insight into human behavior. Here...
View ArticleAlumnus Ben Howe & his Core-themed brewery
Ben Howe (CAS ’07), an entrepreneurial Core Curriculum alumnus, has opened a nano brewery and appropriately named it Enlightenment Ales! To our delight, the titles of his individual ales are, in our...
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