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A Case for Beauty in a Fleeting World
The status of Leo Strauss. His method is a wholesale orientation toward intellectual life that is at best misguided and at worst incoherent
Science fiction and prophecy. "Something like comfort is achieved when the absurdity of the real begins to look like the far-fetched What If of the imaginary"
How did Enlightenment philosophers, at the end of their lives, reconcile their ties to the future with the immediacy of death?
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Book Review: ‘American Reich,’ by Eric Lichtblau
“Only thoroughness can be truly entertaining,” wrote Thomas Mann. The Magic Mountain, long and strange, put that proposition to the test
