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The Meaning of Seaweed, and More

The Meaning of Seaweed, and More

Mar 18, 2022
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Lesson from a deserted MLA conference: In the humanities, emergency conditions are the new status quo  ... more »

Julien Benda memorably denounced intellectuals seduced by political power — and then failed to heed his own warning ... more »

To 19th-century algologists, seaweed was useless and abstruse, with no other purpose than to convey the mystery of t…

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