What Jeffrey Hart hath wrought:

Having long since shed his conservatism, now Mr. Gessen and his colleagues at n 1 have decided to create a liberal version of Mr. Hart's pamphlet, in order to offer college freshmen some guidance about what to read and how to approach their education. The theme of the pamphlet, which consists of transcripts of two roundtable discussions held in n 1's office this past summer, is regret: what they wish they'd read; what they wish they'd known. There is a list at the end of the pamphlet of all the works cited — including those that the participants mocked or that were mentioned because someone regretted having read them. Each of the participants has also contributed a list of around 10 "Books That Changed My Life."

This sounds like a Wes Anderson loop de loop of Allan Bloom's disciples reciting Plato to beat back the bandolier-clad black militants at Cornell in 1969.