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Harvey Mansfield at 93 did a 3-hour interview with no break, sharp as ever. Here is the final product, a masterclass on Machiavelli: the Anti-Christ. According to Mansfield, Machiavelli is the very founder of modernity, responsible for establishing the very world you and I live in. He is the... See more

for my @NewYorker column this week, I wrote about Byung-Chul Han, the internet's new favorite philosopher, the Sartre of looking at your phone a lot, author of the paperback manifesto your favorite artist / designer / architect is carrying in their pocket https://t.co/vJAgdEpq3H