Reading Books Made a Man Out of Me

Shilo Brooks hosts the new Free Press podcast, Old School. (The Free Press)
And why I’m launching ‘Old School,’ a new podcast about great books and how they can make us better men.
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Last year, our reporter Frannie Block told me about a lecturer at Princeton who was teaching a class on “greatness,” firmly rooted in the classic books of the Western canon. He would open his course by telling students that if “the greatest thing, the best thing, the noblest thing about you on your deathbed is that you got into Princeton, you didn’t do …
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