Many lament the restrictions that socially distancing orders have placed on us.

That is
understandable. But perhaps, if we focus on the positive, there is an upside to our new situation as well.

For today’s students, at least, our new post-Covid conditions of life should afford more time for direct and unfettered engagement with and exploration of great works and ideas. Indeed, it was in under similar conditions that some of the greatest works that we have come to admire and learn from were first produced.

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