“For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.” ThinkingWayWritingKindDifferentDoneAudienceWrittenLike YouDisciplineLike Yourself Author:Louis Menand
“The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.” WayNeedsMadeDecisionStudentsDegreesUniversityFacultyDecisions Made Author:Louis Menand
“I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.” ThinkingWayWantTryingKindPoliticalViewsUniversityQuotaPolitical View Author:Louis Menand
“It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by their schools where they're graduate students, and that does become exploitative eventually because they're very cheap labor and there's a way in which in it's not in the institution's interest to give them a degree if they can continue to employ them, I don't think anybody thinks that way, but effectively that's the way the system is starting to work.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingDoeSchoolJobsDifficultInterestTeachingStudentsDegreesLaborInstitutionsStartingGraduatesEmployedAssistantsInstructorsGraduate StudentsCheap LaborStay In School Author:Louis Menand
“I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me.” PeopleWayWritingKindDifferentMatterSeemsCertainAudienceIntellectualNo Matter WhatDifferent WaysHatsAcademicDifferent KindsScholarlyReadership Author:Louis Menand
“It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.” WayFeelsShouldPersonsDoeEarthNationsBehaviorUnhappyExplanationFlawsGenesProsperousAntisocialWiringAntisocial Behavior Author:Louis Menand
