Elite Education, Art and Exile, and More

In a just world, says Jonny Thakkar, the college where he teaches wouldn’t exist.

Elite Education

In a just world, says Jonny Thakkar, the college where he teaches wouldn’t exist. “The mere possibility would be regarded as obscene”

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Art and Exile

Building an art collection is akin to building an identity. What happens when that collection is looted?

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Fukuyama's Ends

Francis Fukuyama is no prophet. “The end of history” is just so grand that it endures as a theoretical piñata.

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Philosophy or Poetry?

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is known as a great work of philosophy. Is it also an immaculate volume of modernist poetry?

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Melancholy, Today

Richard Burton kept returning to the subject of melancholy because writing helped him assuage his own despair.