Some Epstein, with a little commentary of my own:
"The most impressive students I had over my 30 years of university teaching were those I encountered when I first began, in the early 1970s, who almost all turned out to have been put through Catholic schools, during a time when priests and nuns still taught and Catholic education hadn't become indistinguishable from secular education." Joseph Epstein
This is kinda where I stand with medicine today: "Proust says that to believe in modern medicine is insane, and that the only thing more insane is not to believe it." Epstein
Epstein is right. They were like country clubs: "Neighborhood taverns–the workingman's country clubs–are largely gone."
Another great observation from Epstein: "Nearly everything that was most troublesome about life in the fifties–Communism abroad, racial segregation at home, domination by an often narrowly intolerant mainstream culture–has been eliminated, changed, or defeated, without life seeming qualitatively better."
