Metamorphosis

McTaggart wore his eccentricities with pride. He rode a tricycle. He walked “with a curious shuffle, back to the wall, as if expecting a sudden kick from behind,” a fact that may or may not be explained by his having been bullied at boarding school. He saluted every cat he met. His dissertation for a fellowship at Trinity, later published as Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic; had elicited from that older Apostle, Henry Sidgwick, the remark; “I can see that this is nonsense, but what I want to know is whether it is the right kind of nonsense.” Apparently, it was--from a book on eccentric Oxford philosophers

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Imports from Mexico now surpass imports from China.

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Metamorphosis

Before she was Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay was involved in pushing out a dean after students protested his legal representation of Harvey Weinstein.

Imagine a major American school whose students and leaders opposed a lawyer because he was willing to defend an unpopular man--just as John Adams, one of America's founders, did in his defense of the British soldiers at the Boston Massacre. And Adams won his case in front of an American jury.

What are we changing into?