THE ESSENCE OF MY CONSERVATISM:
So let's say I'm in the Grad Library, doing research for my paper on Augustine's aesthetics (4A North, my favorite part of the Grad). I come across two books on the topic, one published by Oxford University Press, the other by some no-name publishing company. Is one of those probably going to be a better source for me?
Similarly, let's say I've jaunted over to 5S to do some research for my paper on Lenin's return to the Finland Station, and I find another two books that might be good, one by an eminent Sovietologist who holds a professorship at Harvard, with many similar publications to her name, and the other by a guy who, so far as I can tell, has no academic credentials worth mentioning. Is one of those books probably going to be a better source for me?
Let's say I go to write my final paper for Marxism-Leninism, and decide that instead of reading about a dozen books on my topic, as I have the last two times, I'm only going to read one book, since I think I can anticipate the arguments my professor will want to see pretty well. Is my paper probably going to be better or worse than the two I wrote before?
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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