Students and Society

Abstract

I'm a little bothered about speaking on the topic of the responsibility of intellectuals, because I think that my credentials are somewhat shaky, from both the point of view of responsibility and the point of view of being an intellectual, since I haven't worked on my thesis in about four months because of this March 4 business. I've been accused of being somewhat less than responsible about that by, among other people, my mother-in-law. But these remarks misrepresent any feeling of levity that I might be bringing to this occasion.