Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

  • -- Ron Chernow 荣·切尔诺

写死去的白人男性似乎在学术界不受欢迎。

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I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.

一段时间以来,我一直觉得,经济学需要由那些实际上在华尔街工作或投资过的经济学家以不同的方式教授。当经济学由纯学术人士讲授时,要小心。

I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

我不是那种办公室里堆满书的教授。顺便说一下,我认为学者们这样做是为了恐吓他们的访客。

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

提供一个作家不被惯例所阻碍——有些是这样的——参加这些惯例可以从必要的写作孤立中得到很好的休息。

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

用死人的骨头打活人是神学家的老习惯。

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

我不吃牡蛎。我不想吃东西了。不生病的。没有人受伤。死了。

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

读一本书就像为自己重新写一遍。