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Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
The processes of dismantlement, privatization, social segregation, and educational inadequacy are going to accelerate. Why? Because we no longer require schools to deliver shared knowledge or even proper worker training to the broad masses. We require them – and this will increasingly be their role – to separate out and protect the deserving
... See moreAlain Badiou • The True Life
I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.
One of the strangest things you learn if you're a writer is how many people have trouble writing. Doctors know how many people have a mole they're worried about; people who... See more
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
Private Kingdoms
american-innocence.comTed Gioia • When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists
Rousseau advanced the idea that man is born naturally good but is corrupted by society. From Rousseau came the modern notion that the freer a society is, the more virtuous it is.
Rod Dreher • The Benedict Option
De Tocqueville, when he invented the word ‘individualism’, was talking about a pervasive change in the entire American social attitude, not a limited element that had happened to prevail over a given set of rivals.
Mary Midgley • The Myths We Live By
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Rewriting it on the spot, he got personal and specific and created a classic: We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.