|Counterculture, From Dawn to Decadence, Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society
Our Exhausted Age
by Nathaniel Peters|
Our Exhausted Age
Cover of Ross Douthat's The Decadent SocietyStanding with Erasmus, Undaunted
It all started during a golf outing on the plush courses of northern Maine (summer, I presume) among Bowdoin president Barry Mills and Thomas Klingenstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Claremont Institute, that I guess Mills would like to have back. That day at the links, or rather Mills’ public recollection of it, launched a National Association of Scholars’ 363 page study of the curriculum and education offerings of Bowdoin College.
