Abstract
Reading Thomas A. Tweed’s Crossing and Dwelling reminds me of a repeated scolding I got from my Irish Catholic mother when she felt that her son’s attendance at an Ivy-League school might imperil the Old World manners she had sought to instill. My mom would say: “you’re getting this fancy education and you can’t even be polite.” Implicit in her scolding was an anxiety that an overvaluation of intellectual life could inculcate a sense of superiority and condescension to
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