Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That’s what we’re all storing away in “The Cloud”

libertiesjournal.substack.comSubstackCovered by37 min read
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Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. Now there’s data to back it up

The Chronicle of Higher EducationHNCovered by18
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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There are two types of anti-woke intellectuals. The first type criticizes ideas; the second is consumed by them

skeptic.comCovered by210 min read
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The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one

drb.ieHN8 min read
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Where Kant and Rousseau theorized, George Forster sailed the world to learn what makes humans human

Literary ReviewHNCovered by24 min read
Literary Review
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The dons of Oxbridge have traded the BBC for podcasts. Is this decline or progress?

Literary ReviewHN5 min read
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"AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, " as well as a lot of promising"

London Review of BooksHNCovered by36 min read
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The publishing midlist isn't shrinking. It's growing faster than the pool of available readers

therepublicofletters.substack.comSubstack7 min read
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Harold Bloom read everything, praised lavishly, and struggled mightily with self-doubt

The Wall Street Journal
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The Loneliness of the Competitive Quizzer

The BafflerHN15 min read
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Superhuman Fantasies

The Point MagazineHNCovered by215 min read
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Alasdair MacIntyre was right all along

UnHerdunherd.com9 min read
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The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game

London Review of BooksPaywalled.
HN2Covered by315 min read
London Review of Books
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Sheila Liming: “The End of Books”

The Yale ReviewHNCovered by210 min read
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The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster

The ArgumentHNCovered by48 min read
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The grand tour’s most enduring truth: Even the most miraculous work of art is born not just into history, but also out of it

Los Angeles Review of BooksHN15 min read
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Sensitivity readers promise authenticity but deliver essentialism. Who really benefits when identity polices the imagination?

The Nation10 min read
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Mathematics is out there

AeonHNCovered by3
Aeon
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She called Judith Butler evil and Susan Sontag boring. Camille Paglia is 79 and unrepentant

thetimes.comPaywalled.
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Althouse, and more ›
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He appeared to be a pauper, but John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed was quite successful, owning 1,200 acres across three states

The Wall Street Journal
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