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‘Breaking Bread With the Dead’ Review: Old Books in a New Class
A professor argues that we should engage with the classics, not only in spite of, but even because of, our moral differences with them.
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Dec. 9, 2020 6:13 pm ET
Alan Jacobs reports that, though he has been teaching old books to classrooms full of students for many years, lately when he walks into a classroom “fairly regularly the first thing I see is every head bowed before a glowing screen.” Ever-present screen-based entertainment, a 24-hour news cycle and the constant connectivity of social media place us in a constant sensory flux. This is not a hospitable environment for the study of great books, but Mr. Jacobs argues that our current predicament provides even more reason for turning to them: Reading old books promises to lengthen our “now,” situating and stabilizing us so that we become possessed of more tranqu ....

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