Great political theorists visit my class

And students for the most part sit silently and look bewildered (a Part II to yesterday's paean to lectures)

[This is the image on front page of my syllabus for the course. The painting is Massacre des Carmes, which depicts a revolutionary mob murdering nearly 200 priests in a convent that had been converted in the days of the French Revolution into a prison]

I have been teaching a course on conservative thought for three or four years now.  The full course ti…