My friend and old dorm-mate Rajeev Samant has been flown in, business class and not the class that sits on top of the airplane, to speak to the incoming freshman at Stanford this year. That’s 1700 kids at Stanford’s MemAud. I remember that morning back in 1984, President Donald Kennedy advising us to Question Authority. Raj was one of the…

In lieu of an actual post (I have things cooking but they’re not yet ready), I’m just going to post one of my favorite passages from Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition: “But perhaps the majority of philosophers had subordinated difference to identity or to the Same, to the Similar, to the Opposed or to the Analogous: they had introduced difference…