My Thesis Defense

I'm sure everyone is more than tired of my Obama-thesis musings, which were out of proportion to the importance of the issue the first time through, and are preposterously so now that I'm on take three. But since it's a lazy, largely news-less, Friday, and since two people I like and admire have blogged about my comments, I thought, what the hell. Why not weigh in again? First, in response to my surprise that Obama couldn't remember his thesis topic, Ed Kilgore writes: I'm not sure exactly how old Noam is, but I suspect his senior thesis was written a lot more recently than Obama's, while my own Emory senior thesis was submitted (and was promptly destroyed, more than likely) much earlier than either. And all I really remember with any specificity is that I decided I had to reinterpret the history of Western Thought at least... [read full story]