This is a few days old, but I found this Maureen O'Dowd column amusing: From 'Cats' to Cicero. It's about the President's commencement speech at Ohio State University, and the fact that his ideas (according to USA Freedom Corps director John Bridgeland) are derived from "Tocqueville, Adam Smith, 'the world's major religions,' Aristotle, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Pope John Paul II, Cicero, Abraham Lincoln and the founding fathers Benjamin Rush, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington." Looks like I'm not the only one who has been working through his Great Books of the Western World set....