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The Straussian Moment
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Sapir and Whorf’s rhetoric answered to a contemporary moral panic about the use and abuse of language. The young 20th century saw public discourse perverted by new forms of propaganda, disseminated by such new technologies as radio and film, all of which accompanied and facilitated the catastrophic upheavals of the First World War and the political
... See moreJames McElvenny • Our Language, Our World
Na batalha contra o coronavírus, faltam líderes à humanidade (Breve Companhia) (Portuguese Edition)
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You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society — the politicians, legislators, educators, and scientists — by the fact that he is his own test tube, his own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules, however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all t
... See moreMaria Popova • James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
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