From the Center: Adler on necessity and contingency; Umberto Eco (1932-2016); Pesta on campus activism;

Recent communications with members of the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas included:

• Interview of Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
• Mortimer Adler on necessity and contingency as one of The Great Ideas
• Peter Boghossian on philosophy that matters
• Woody Allen's commencement speech
• Dr. Duke Pesta on the resurrecting of the campus activism of the 1960s

Here at the weblog, we've added Real Clear Books to the Books and Ideas Blogroll in the sidebar.