By over-specializing, professionals have unwittingly shrunk their job duties to fit inside a machine’s scope of practice.
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All the adventures were tests, but not of the Don’s courage. Rather, they were tests of friendship, pure and simple.
For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.
We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
The strike zone is not reducible to the simple rectangle displayed on TV broadcasts.
We hold two apparently contradictory beliefs about war.
Six centuries after Gutenberg, the Internet has had a malignant effect on the public mind.
Real independence of mind can be won only by a sustained process of submission to authority.
More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.