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I believe that future critics of our current political order will identify, as political fictions, what might be called the liberalism triad: freedom of speech, egalitarianism, and the fight for social justice.
Agnes Callard • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
Ted Gioia • When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists
This is why, for example, I listen to so much new music and read so many ... See more
Ted Gioia • My 12 Favorite Problems
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 bodies
... See moreAlain Badiou • The True Life
two distinct kinds of thinkers, who share in common a desire to develop important ideas and at the same time reach a broad audience. One of these types, the dying one, is the public intellectual, whom Drezner describes as a wide-ranging “critic” and a foe of power; she perhaps stays “aloof from the market, society, or the state,” and she proudly be
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

a professor of religion, Garrett E. Paul, told me about his course in “Ethics in Business and Economics.” Early in the term he assigned his students a paper that would be read aloud in class. “It gets them to write for their peers and not for the teacher,” he told me, “and what they learned was a revelation to them. They learned by the presence or
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