September 10, 2004
Back to School
I've done more than a few dumb things, but I didn't think a recent decision fit into the category of abject stupidity that has marked (too many) points in my life. My friends -- at least, my academic friends -- disagreed.
From their reaction, you'd have thought I'd told them that I was planning to ride a unicycle across the Arabian Desert dressed in a Dior gown.
Instead, what I said was that, after spending a dozen years as an editor of scholarly books and then another
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