>> like plutarch. >> yes. >> i was just going to say, you bring up a good point that contemporary book that are no longer popular, in a few years limit your community to just those readers at that time. if you do read a classic, connects you to the whole of generations who have gone before and will go after you. ns>> those generations are dead sweetheart. >> and the future generations. >> the faculty itself is contradicting themselves. >> well. >> last question here. [inaudible] could the university redefine. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> so there is the possibility that we are being too gentle about all of this because it's not a mere accident that there is a political subject to these books and it's the political agenda that is driving the selection of books. the national association of scholars is friendly to that point of view in that we would rather talk less of it in our previous years of presentation and some of the opposites that we been writing about. i tried to bring it in a little bit that there's clearly some elements of goodwill in the selection of books. it's not just all ab

>> like plutarch. >> yes. >> i was just going to say, you bring up a good point that contemporary book that are no longer popular, in a few years limit your community to just those readers at that time. if you do read a classic, connects you to the whole of generations who have gone before and will go after you. >> those generations are dead sweetheart. >> and the future generations. >> the faculty itself is contradicting themselves. >> well. >> last question here. [inaudible] could the university redefine. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> so there is the possibility that we are being too gentle about all of this because it's not a mere accident that there is a political subject to these books and it's the political agenda that is driving the selection of books. the national association of scholars is friendly to that point of view in that we would rather talk less of it in our previous years of presentation and some of the opposites that we been writing about. i tried to bring it in a little bit that there's clearly some elements of goodwill in the selection of books. it's not just all abou

200 years ago it would be expected of leaders and civilized nations to have done there reading in plutarch. these are lessons in leadership, good lessons and bad lessons. george washington stage of cato for his troops to watch out of his play because he thinks this is an important thing, what people should know. those things don't seem to go with success in the temporary world, other activities of building up your social media time or networking in certain ways or doing things that can go on a resume. >> we need to change what we value as a society. >> two more questions. >> tell me i am being too cynical. if the faculty, if the time on campus is to resist this common culture and create a community by assigning a book, creating a community of people who resist community? >> a paradoxical question here. are beach books programs and attempt to create a community by resisting larger principles of community? >> you would not choose classics if you are trying to create a community of people in this community. >> this is a reference to the anti-culture on campus, the character that is disliked,