Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Emeritus Professor of Government, chats with Glenn Altschuler, his colleague, collaborator, and close friend. Topics include his formative years on a chicken farm in Millis Massachusetts; his undergraduate and graduate experiences at Harvard; and his extraordinary Cornell career as a teacher, scholar, department chair, faculty trustee, vice provost for undergraduate education, “founding father” of the West Campus House System, and University historian.