Democracy Café

What makes for a life worth living? That's the rich question I explore in this latest Socratic tete-a-tete with Claire Diao, who became familiar with my writings while at University of Vermont, and with whom I have been in sporadic touch since she decided to leave her studies to work as a bartender in New York while figuring out her next step in her young life. Claire's aspiration at this stage is to matriculate at Brown University, which she believes is the ideal place for her to learn; and in my humble opinion, it is a no-brainer for them to accept her. If only the powers that be at Brown would listen in to this latest exchange of mine with Claire, hopefully they would become as convinced of this as I am. Hope you'll listen in, meanwhile.