Joshua Cherniss
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Student |
| Location | Cambridge, MA, United States |
| Introduction | Graduate student in political theory (at Harvard) and modern British intellectual history (at Oxford; it's a long story) -- now in my 23rd straight year as a student! |
| Interests | History of ideas, political theory, ethics, political ideologies, international relations, constitional and international law, folk psychology, literature, old books, new books, indie rock, food (preparation and consumpation), pre-modernist architecture, pre-impressionist painting, tweed sportscoats, corduroy anything, southern European wine, northern European whisky (and landscapes), tea, peace love and understanding. |
| Favorite books | The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), War and Peace (Tolstoy), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), Pnin (Nabokov), Lucky Jim (Amis), Invisible Man (Ellison), Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons), Northanger Abbey (Austen), Ordinary Vices (Shklar), On Liberty (Mill), most things by Isaiah Berlin, Lincoln, Adam Michnik, Rousseau, Shakespeare, Tacitus, Tocqueville, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Turgenev, P.G. Wodehouse. |
Why don't you ever wear a scarf? It doesn't need to be cold outside for your neck to feel naked.
I do wear a scarf. And my neck still feels naked.