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Geoffrey Sanborn

Geoffrey Sanborn

Professor of English

A Response to "Conflicts on Campus"

I’d like to offer a couple of thoughts in response to President Biddy Martin’s “Conflicts on Campus” email to the Amherst College community. The first has to do with her discussion of the drawing of a swastika on the face of an unconscious student [https://amherststudent.com/article/
Geoffrey Sanborn Apr 10, 2019

Trump and the Activity of Thinking

The following piece was first delivered as a paper presentation to senior English majors. Everyone involved in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the philosopher Hannah Arendt writes in “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” seemed to find it impossible “to admit that an average, ‘normal’ person, neither feeble-minded nor indoctrinated nor cynical, could
Geoffrey Sanborn Feb 20, 2017

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