Thesis and Antithesis: Rewriting the Rules on Writing

By HEATHER DUBROW

When you have all the answers about a building before you start building it, your answers are not true. The building gives you answers as it grows and becomes itself.
-- Louis I. Kahn

Accustomed to the intellectual shenanigans of professors, the undergraduates in my Renaissance literature courses and general surveys attend politely if...

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