April 18, 2008
Conspicuous Consumption on the Campus
To the Editor:
Mark Edmundson draws a chilling and, on the whole, accurate portrait of university students today ("Dwelling in Possibilities," The Chronicle Review, March 14). He is wrong, though, to say that students have "a spectacular hunger for life." What they hunger for is all the goodies of the consumer culture. They have fallen for just about every blandishment that our culture dangles before them.
If this be life, then Thoreau — whom Edmundson refers to
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