Photomontage by Todd McNaught. Thanks, Todd!
 
I’ll cop out and leave it to our able Dangerous Minds readers to discern the meaning of the shared birth date of Benjamin the leading German Marxist philosopher (who would have been 108 years old), Derrida the French founder of deconstruction (80), and Curtis the lead singer of the century’s most existential pop band (54). If you went to a liberal arts college from 1980 onwards, you probably have your opinions about it.

And so, please enjoy some fragments of the lives of these auspicious birthday boys. Party hats & thinking caps ON!