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• Pater_Patriae1 savers
• Why Read the Classics? | Italo Calvino | The New York Review of Books2 savers
• The Love Letters That Spoke of Everything but Love - The New York Times1 savers
• The Nutty Professors | The New Yorker1 savers
• Theodor Mommsen1 savers
• Tomb of the Scipios1 savers
• Too Much Sociology | Issue 16 | n+1 | The Editors2 savers
• The Gate | The Poetry Foundation1 savers
• Emerson: The Good Hours | Robert Pogue Harrison | The New York Review of Books1 savers
• Plato Similes: A Compendium of 500 Similes in 35 Dialogues1 savers
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• Ninajirachi - Infohazard (Official Video) - YouTube1 savers
• Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt: “You see the politics on her face” – Guernica1 savers
• A Conversation with David Foster Wallace By Larry McCaffery | Dalkey Archive Press1 savers
• Chasing Our Elusive Attention | Meghan O’Gieblyn | The New York Review of Books1 savers
• Unparliamentary language4 savers
• How To Be A Stoic: An Interview With Author Elif Batuman1 savers
• “Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It? | The New Yorker2 savers
• Art as Technique by Viktor Shklovsky2 savers
• I like 'em thick - by Adam Mastroianni12 savers
• jamesgerity.com/biblio/authority.pdf2 savers
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• The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite – The Scholar's Stage8 savers
• Speech: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me… | The Poetry Foundation1 savers
• The Modern Library's Top 100 Nonfiction Books of the Century1 savers
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• Opinion | Love Story - The New York Times1 savers
• IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE1 savers
• An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay1 savers
• “The American Scholar”2 savers
• A good man is hard to find1 savers
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• The Best Ralph Waldo Emerson Books | Five Books Recommendations1 savers
• Philosophy 78: Hands-On Existentialism1 savers
• A Translator’s Reckoning With the Women of the Odyssey | The New Yorker1 savers
• “Out There,” by Kate Folk | The New Yorker2 savers
• The Life and Times of an American Tween | The New Yorker5 savers
• The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine1 savers
• On Idleness - The Essays of Michel de Montaigne1 savers
• ‘One of Those Serious Women’ | Commonweal Magazine1 savers
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• Project MUSE - The Same Solitude1 savers
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• The Histomap. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection1 savers
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• Speech: “All the world’s a stage” | The Poetry Foundation1 savers
• On the Liberal Imagination | The Point Magazine2 savers
• On the Liberal Imagination | The Point Magazine1 savers
• from “An Attempt at Jealousy” | The Poetry Foundation1 savers
• Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr - The New York Times1 savers
• Julian Barnes · Writer’s Writer and Writer’s Writer’s Writer: ‘Madame Bovary’1 savers
• Jackson Dahl on X: "21 Lessons from Jasmine Sun on Seeing & Reporting, Shaping Your Writing, and Staying Human" / X1 savers
• In the Ruins of Western Civilization | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review1 savers
• Quitting | The Point Magazine1 savers
• the intelligence of desire - by maja - velvet noise2 savers
• The Left Needs Ideas - Dissent Magazine1 savers
• Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy17 savers
• The Wheelwright and the Butcher: Master Zhuang's Recipe for Mindful Living - Association for Asian Studies1 savers
• Selections from Keats’s Letters by John Keats | Poetry Foundation6 savers
• I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poetry Foundation3 savers
• Magnanimity1 savers
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• The Whore of Mensa | The New Yorker2 savers
• John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 May 17811 savers
• State of Scholarship Report | Principles | Vanderbilt University1 savers
• #3 - Xin qing nian = La jeunesse v.1. - Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library1 savers
• A STUDY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION1 savers
• Matthew Sitman – The Dish1 savers
• Leaving Conservatism Behind - Dissent Magazine1 savers
• Opinion | John McCain: Salute to a Communist - The New York Times1 savers
• The Socialists Who Love Talking to Conservatives - POLITICO1 savers
• Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - YouTube1 savers
• A New Conservative Agenda - First Things1 savers
• David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic1 savers
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• The Prophet of Envy | Robert Pogue Harrison | The New York Review of Books1 savers
• Why Japan Surrendered | GarethCook1 savers
• ChatGPT Is a Gimmick | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review1 savers
• Jon Haidt's Commencement Address at NYU - The Atlantic1 savers
• John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son – The Marginalian1 savers
• George Sand1 savers
• The Use and Abuse of Joan Didion | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review1 savers
• Hotel Concierge — The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment4 savers
• looking for rejection - by Ava - bookbear express5 savers
• The Most Precious Resource is Agency - by Simon Sarris12 savers
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• Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlsson70 savers
• Do Thing, Do One Thing49 savers
• HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)34 savers
• Finding Person-Problem Fit - Compound Manual20 savers
• Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility | Som-Mai Nguyen18 savers
• Why we stopped making Einsteins - by Erik Hoel15 savers
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• Good Bones by Maggie Smith | Poetry Foundation8 savers
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highlights · 157

• The next book you’ve picked is Emerson’s Journals.

  The Best Ralph Waldo Emerson Books | Five Books Recommendations

• Postman died in 2003, too early for family dance challenges on TikTok to kill him.

  The Life and Times of an American Tween | The New Yorker

• it’s far better for them to figure that out now than to find themselves with a mortgage whose payment depends on living out a contradiction that sheer will can no longer hold together.

  The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine

• A soul with no fixed goal is sure to lose its way for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere. Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat. Whoever lives everywhere, Maximus, lives nowhere.❦

  On Idleness - The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

• The best we can do, then, is to access the political through reflection, through something inalienable—our ability to think.

  4ebe61_d919b971058a4488842858edae1bf57f.pdf

• Our age elevates the significance of the political as the source of meaning for individual lives, while also suggesting that the only relevant scope for human action is global or systemic.

  4ebe61_d919b971058a4488842858edae1bf57f.pdf

• "Still, we have the same solitude, the same journeys and searching, and the same favorite turns in the labyrinth of literature and history."—Boris Pasternak to Marina Tsvetaeva

  Project MUSE - The Same Solitude

• The Henry Miller Memorial Library is a nonprofit arts center, bookstore, and performance venue in Big Sur, California, documenting the life of the late writer and artist Henry Miller.

  Henry_Miller_Memorial_Library

• Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

  Speech: “All the world’s a stage” | The Poetry Foundation

• There is all the difference in the world, moreover, between abstaining from public pronouncements about the good life out of political principle, historical memory or a sense for the tragic irresolvability of conflicting ethical commitments, and doing so because one has never felt the pull of such commitments to begin with. In the latter case, what may look to some like sophistication or maturity is in fact an abdication of responsibility—and, perhaps, the harbinger of cultural exhaustion.

  On the Liberal Imagination | The Point Magazine

• To be effective in the world, we need "a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom and power available to us" and "a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of both the enemy's demonry and our vanities."

  Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr - The New York Times

• Madame Bovary is many things – a perfect piece of fictional machinery, the pinnacle of realism, the slaughterer of Romanticism, a complex study of failure – but it is also the first great shopping and fucking novel.

  Julian Barnes · Writer’s Writer and Writer’s Writer’s Writer: ‘Madame Bovary’

• On the other hand, Davis’s work shares the Flaubertian virtues of compression, irony and an extreme sense of control. And if Flaubert in his monasticism and exemplary pertinacity is a writer’s writer, Davis was described to me recently by an American novelist as a ‘writer’s writer’s writer’. That her translation of Madame Bovary was deemed worthy of serialisation by Playboy magazine – which puffed it as ‘the most scandalous novel of all time’ on the cover – is a noisier irony of which Flaubert might well have approved.

  Julian Barnes · Writer’s Writer and Writer’s Writer’s Writer: ‘Madame Bovary’

• Montaigne’s own essays shimmer with the results of his learned foraging, phrases that he plucked from his favorite books. It is only by making past authors our own, by connecting them, that culture can retain its urgent power. Only by selecting which voices from beyond the grave and oceans we wish to retain can we collect the fragments which one day may help us stave off ruin.

  In the Ruins of Western Civilization | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review

• One day, Levi found a moment of respite when a friendly Frenchman expressed a regret that he had never learned Italian. Levi began by teaching him a few simple words—zuppa, campo, acqua—before feeling a sudden urge to recite Ulysses’s canto from Dante’s Inferno. At first, he recalled only fragments, but rushed on to the climax of the speech. He then prepared his interlocutor for what he was about to hear: “Open your ears and your mind, you have to understand, for my sake,” he insisted. And then he recited: Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute…

  In the Ruins of Western Civilization | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review

• At the root of that discontent, the authors argued, was an absence of dignity and mutual respect in daily life. “Class is a system for limiting freedom,” they wrote. “It limits the freedom of the powerful in dealing with other people, because the strong are constricted within the circle of action that maintains their power; class constricts the weak more obviously in that they must obey commands.”

  The Left Needs Ideas - Dissent Magazine

• I feel it in the hand and respond from the heart, the mouth cannot put it into words, there is a knack in it somewhere which I cannot convey to my son and which my son cannot learn from me. That is how through my seventy years I have grown old chipping at wheels. The men of old and their untransmittable message are dead. Then what my lord is reading is the dregs of the men of old, isn’t it?

  The Wheelwright and the Butcher: Master Zhuang's Recipe for Mindful Living - Association for Asian Studies

• Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason

  Selections from Keats’s Letters by John Keats | Poetry Foundation

• and I am anxiously waiting for the secret of eternal life to be discovered by an obscure general practitioner

  I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poetry Foundation

• You will ever remember that all the End of study is to make you a good Man and a useful Citizen.

  John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 May 1781

• In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn Wisdom and Virtue. You will see them represented, with all the Charms which Language and Imagination can exhibit, and Vice and Folly painted in all their Deformity and Horror.

  John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 May 1781

• One often hears it said that the mind and the body cannot both be perfect at the same time, that those who use their minds are deficient in physical health and those with a robust body are generally deficient in mental capacities. This kind of talk is also absurd and applies only to those who are weak in will and feeble in action, which is generally not the case of superior men.

  A STUDY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• entering into an abiding friendship actually is the beginning of a more general wisdom: that striving must give way to acceptance, that present laughter should be valued over future reward, that life is not a series of “problems” to be “solved” but a mystery to enjoyed.

  Matthew Sitman – The Dish

• A class-based politics acknowledges that we are bound in ways we do not choose; that we are constrained in ways that the exertion of our wills may never overcome. This is not to concede too much to defeatism or despair, but to resist making heroism a requirement for a decent life. Class politics is, finally, a form of solidarity, a way of joining together in our shared fallibility and weakness, and shaping our life together accordingly.

  Leaving Conservatism Behind - Dissent Magazine

• So was Mr. Berg. He didn’t need to know for whom the bell tolls. He knew it tolled for him. And I salute him. Rest in peace.

  Opinion | John McCain: Salute to a Communist - The New York Times

• the search for consensus actually impedes rather than facilitates authentic understanding between political opponents.

  The Socialists Who Love Talking to Conservatives - POLITICO

• “Not devoid of moral relative moral righteousness, but pretty much devoid of ideas.”

  The Socialists Who Love Talking to Conservatives - POLITICO

• anxiety about whether one’s children will be tech-company winners or endlessly indebted gig workers.

  A New Conservative Agenda - First Things

• prepare them to argue well

  David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic

• universities have spent so much time serving the private good of students and faculty that they have neglected their role as stewards of the public good.

  David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic

• “To get an education, you’re probably going to have to fight against the institution you find yourself in—no matter how prestigious it might be,” Edmundson once told an audience of students. “In fact, the more prestigious the school, the more you’ll probably have to push.”

  David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic

• You only go to college once, his father roared, you better study what genuinely interests you. The rich kids get to study what they want, and you are just as good as any rich kids.

  David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic

• You can emerge either an anesthetized drone or a person fully curious, fully committed, and fully alive.

  David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic

• The Great Conversation never ends, because there are no final answers to these tensions, just a temporary balance that works for a particular person or culture in a particular context.

  David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic

• They want to walk with students through the biggest questions: Who am I? What might I become? What is this world I find myself in? If you don’t ask yourself these questions, these teachers say, you risk wasting your life on trivial pursuits, following the conventional path, doing what others want you to do instead of what is truly in your nature.

  David Brooks: Something Is Going Right at Universities - The Atlantic

• With writing comes precision, analytical rigor, deliberate word choices, analytic remove from life, and abstract thought.

  We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack

• For a medium-sized decision, I tend to lean on two heuristics: (1) Do Thing (2) Do One Thing

  Do Thing, Do One Thing

• I will sacrifice some length of my days to add depth to another person’s experience of the rest of theirs. Many did this for me. The work is slow. Its results often go unseen for years. But it is no gimmick.

  ChatGPT Is a Gimmick | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review

• Grand Tour that young European aristocrats took part in, traveling from country to country, visiting universities and partaking of the various cultures and cuisines and sights

  Why we stopped making Einsteins - by Erik Hoel

• But most of the time life as a tutor was essentially a cushy patronage job, wherein you instilled a sense of intellectual discovery into a young child in return for a hefty salary that left most of your free time intact

  Why we stopped making Einsteins - by Erik Hoel

• Because what you pay attention to shapes what you care about. And what you care about shapes who you become.

  Jon Haidt's Commencement Address at NYU - The Atlantic

• And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

  John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son – The Marginalian

• There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

  John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son – The Marginalian

• "It seems to me that we change from day to day and that after some years we are a new being."

  George Sand

• It was the writer-explorer in Sand that drew so many people to her. She was loved for her courage, her determination, her refusal of hypocrisy and compromise, her desire for equality of all kinds, her acts of kindness.

  George Sand

• variously described not in relation to her writing but rather as a frigid, bisexual, nymphomaniac, or "Good Lady of Nohant."

  George Sand

• Too many people believe their culture faces life’s hardships with the most dignity, spirit, and wit (every population, it seems, purports to be uniquely familiar with repression).

  Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility | Som-Mai Nguyen

• Gunpowder was invented in the 9th century by Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir of immortality.

  Four Great Inventions

• hey exempted Roman citizens from degrading and shameful forms of punishment, such as whipping, scourging, or crucifixion. They also established certain rights for Roman citizens, including provocatio, the right to appeal to the tribunes of the plebs.

  Valerian and Porcian laws

• Progressive reforms: A century of accomplishments

  The Progressive Tradition in American Politics - Center for American Progress