O ver the years I have gotten into trouble more than a few times for things I have written or said in public, but I suppose the chief cause of my notoriety is a speech I gave to the freshmen of Yale College suggesting that they would be wise to make the study of Western civilization the center of their pursuit of a liberal education. In that speech I focused on our needs as Americans. I pointed...

In one of the essays, ‘The American Experience of B R Ambedkar’ included in her book, From Untouchable to Dalit, Eleanor Zelliot writes: “A direct comparison between the Negroes of America and Untouchables of India does not appear in Ambedkar’s writings.” She may be right, in a way, but Ambedkar does make comparison between slaves and untouchables, cites parallel cases and also shows how Hindus...

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RECENT WORK ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY and knowledge growth has produced a variety of models to capture a process of bewildering complexity. Prominent among these are organic models, which compare knowledge growth to biological processes (e.g., hybridization), and spatial models, based on various suggestive geographical parallels. Part of the background of the dynamic formation, interaction, and di...