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Elite Education, Art and Exile, and More

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Elite Education, Art and Exile, and More

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

Aug 21, 2021
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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”


Art and Exile

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


Fukuyama's Ends

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


Philosophy or Poetry?

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


Melancholy, Today

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

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