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Spreading the Good Word

theamericanscholar.org·2w

The Old Guard, by Samuel Moyn

harpers.org

·4w·Hacker News, r/longform

Dissidence is not a political stance, career, or personality type. It occurs when the distance between beliefs and actions becomes intolerable

lareviewofbooks.org·1w·r/longform

For Ibram X. Kendi, It’s Nazis All the Way Down

theatlantic.com

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Adapting Messiah for the screen is an odd midlife crisis. For Jack Kevorkian it made sense

thenewatlantis.com·1w

Wolfgang Koeppen’s Structural Musicality by Joshua Cohen

theparisreview.org·1w·Hacker News

The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory

newyorker.com·1w

Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's "annoying Socratic gadfly," spent decades championing lost causes. At 94, he's suddenly winning

chronicle.com·1w

You've seen crows picking at roadkill. Disgusting? Those birds are doing us a favor

wsj.com·1w

What Is Authorship When Machines Can Write?

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu·2w·Hacker News, Hacker News

Wittgenstein finished the Tractatus certain all philosophical problems were solved. Then spent his life disagreeing.

literaryreview.co.uk·2w

Will human-written fiction become artisanal cheese, a luxury for the wealthy few while others eat Velveeta?

commonwealmagazine.org·2w·Hacker News

How two filmmakers, a borrowed camera, and a Judas Priest concert led to an immortal documentary

nytimes.com

·2w

Kierkegaard vs. Copenhagen's tabloid press. "Twenty-five signatures make the most frightful stupidity into an opinion"

plough.com·2w

Why Does Music in Science Fiction Sound Like That?

daily.jstor.org·2w·Hacker News

The People’s Critic

theamericanscholar.org·2w

The Mind of a Minotaur

thepointmag.com·2w·r/longform

Does reading do us any good?

aeon.co·3w·Hacker News, r/longform

Dwight Garner: “The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches”

nytimes.com

·2w

Seamus Heaney took Dante as his model, not Yeats — and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory

hudsonreview.com·2w

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