Commentary
When I read Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” many years ago, I was at first not impressed. How could anyone not see that a naked man had no clothes on?
In 1849, Vilhelm Pedersen illustrated the emperor parading through the streets in his magical new "clothes" for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes." Public Domain
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John M. Ellis
Author
John M. Ellis is a distinguished professor emeritus at University of California–Santa Cruz, chair of the California Association of Scholars, and the author of several books, the most recent of which is “The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done.”
