(I title today’s post with tongue firmly in cheek, partly as a playful attempt to tease Tim about his “light reading” series, and partly because some of the “compulsory” reading is my own writing, the height of shameless self-promotion.) 1. Occupy Wall Street: A New Culture War?, by Andrew Hartman, Chronicle of Higher Education My thinking in this article comes from my October 18 blog post. That post got thousands of hits thanks to a plug by Andrew Sullivan (who also linked to Ben’s post the day before on the ubiquity of being labled a Straussian–the common ingredient: we were Read more