Having taken the reins from my friend Bruce Sanborn earlier this year, Tom
Klingenstein is the new chairman of the Claremont Institute. Tom's essay "A
golf story" is one of the highlights of the new double issue of the gala tenth
anniversary number of the Claremont Review of Books.
In a convocation address that he gave at the start of the school year, Bowdoin
College President Barry Mills called for more intellectual diversity on
campus, though it was quite clear from a close reading of the speech that he
was not particularly serious. And that is the essential point of Tom's essay.
Tom seeks to shame Mills into making good on his commitment to increase
intellectual diversity.
Tom's essay was inspired by Mills's blind but unflattering reference to Tom in
Mills's speech. Tom's essay reveals Mills to be something of a fabulator when
it comes to the golf story with which he illustrated his speech. The
conservative interlocutor of Mill's speech is depicted none too subtly as a
troglodyte and -- what else? -- a racist. As Tom points out, there seems to be
some projection going on.
Tom's essay has elicited good coverage on campus ...
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