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He also highlighted to his students Plato’s belief in the necessity of “the noble lie,” the veneer of comforting falsehoods with which wise rulers must placate the untutored masses while going about the serious business of exercising power.

He sees them as an upmarket substitute for the Trump phenomenon, "untutored and ill-led" as it was.

One of my own favorite poets is Campbell McGrath, whose “Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems” tumbles out of the earbuds in the author’s untutored enthusiastic telling, a freewheeling ramble through American appetites and satisfactions, too much and never quite enough, searching and striving, lost and found.

Untutored except by art magazines, YouTube and the writings of personal gods — sculptor Louise Bourgeois and painter Agnes Martin — she teaches herself: “I was just trying to master the nature of a box. Everything I made was flat and six-sided.”

This led some people to dismiss him as a brash, untutored interloper.