Epstein Secrets

ng on any number of issues to any kind of audience. Yes, he's also a liberal, one who as a young man could hold his brilliant own against William F. Buckley on "Firing Line." But he is just as brilliant an administrator who, in his nearly 40-year tenure at Bard, has made the school into one of the most pr

tor Atomic,” an opera about the creation of the atomic bomb. Sellars held heads of state in awe. My second nomination is Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York state. He is one of our few remaining public intellectuals and a renaissance man, which means he is a conductor, educator and scholar. He

in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name-dropping." Buckley admired the parody and offered Brooks a job with National Review. A turning point in Brooks's thinking came later that year in a televised debate w

nd Princeton University before returning to Harvard in 2001. She is also the recipient of honorary degrees from Brown University, Duke University, Bard College, and the University of Antwerp. PETER RAVEN Peter H. Raven, a leading botanist and advocate of conservation and biodiversity with a notably intern

is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name-dropping.” Buckley admired the parody and offered Brooks ajob with National Review. A turning point in Brooks’s thinking came later that year in a televised debate with

and Princeton University before returning to Harvard in 2001. She is also the recipient of honorary degrees from Brown University, Duke University, Bard College, and the University of Antwerp. PETER RAVEN Peter H. Raven, a leading botanist and advocate of conservation and biodiversity with a notably interna