Phi Beta Kappa address

I was talking on the phone to a colleague last month—I know what you’re thinking: “Where is he going with this?” But bear with me for a moment. He was complaining about something or other as professors do, while I was aimlessly walking around my study at home. I was looking at books and sorting […]

Phi Beta Kappa Speech

Recently, I had a package to mail, so I went down to the UPS store on Mass Ave in Cambridge. (There’s more to this story, so bear with me for a moment.) On the way back, I passed one of those tiny houses on stilts where you can take free books, and hopefully replace them […]

Phi Beta Kappa speech

Editor’s Note: This speech was delivered by Prof. David Katz at the Phi Beta Kappa commencement ceremony earlier this year. Ron DeSantis … those are words that can stop a Phi Beta Kappa commencement speech dead in its tracks … but I digress. Ron DeSantis was asked in a British television interview recently where he […]