Attentional humility opens us to sympathetic reading—a willingness to receive from the text on the author’s own terms.
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H.P. Lovecraft’s verse advances a startlingly modern metaphysic.
Only through regular injections of human writing can the models improve and the machines stay up to date.
I don’t like this collapse of trust; I don’t like being in a technological arms race with my students.
Au revoir, Françoise Hardy.
Liberal public culture is a culture of polite separation.
I have a very hard time believing that most people can see things.
The ironic result of the triumph of the machine may be the creation of an ecosystem in which supra-rational gnostic appeals flourish.
Camus embodied an existence that was itself conflicted, caught between the vectors of history and lived experience.
Trump is a man for our moment. Both that man and moment are less authoritarian than anarchic.