Intellectualism

our contemporary world has privatized much of public life. We retreat into our homes, onto our screens, and into our echo chambers. Immersing ourselves in information mediated by algorithms. Always connected, yet rarely connecting with one another. The result is we are less and less practiced in the craft of conversation, our ability to hear one an

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That was the ability and purpose of the public intellectual— to challenge deeply held beliefs, to present ideas so undeniable that they could break through even the most firm ideologies