Hmm …

… Obama as Literary Critic by Edward Mendelson | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Well, I think he's wrong about Eliot and fatalism, but that's OK because it's a young man thinking on his own. Eliot came to believe that sin and redemption are at the center of human being:

The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.