To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare

Then the poetry people respond--often a little late, in need of haircuts--with earnest arguments about the value of art. I am an English major to death. But I learned years ago that there's no benefit in joining this debate. The scientist-novelist C. P. Snow went after the subject in 1959 in a lecture called "The Two Cultures," in which he criticized British society for favoring Shakespeare over Newton. Snow gets cited a lot.