Ignorance Is a Luxury We Cannot Afford

By MICHAEL BERUBE

I met my classes the day after the terrorist attack on the United States. Amazingly, almost all my students showed up, both to an honors seminar and to an American-literature survey. It was with a mixture of relief and apprehension, I think, that they heard me say I was shelving the course assignments and would devote most of the rest of the week -- for all who chose...

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