George Scialabba is a contributing editor of The Baffler and the author of What Are Intellectuals Good For? and For the Republic.
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George Scialabba is a contributing editor of The Baffler and the author of What Are Intellectuals Good For? and For the Republic.
Matthew Crawford reflects on the political economy of attention in The World Beyond Your Head.
On utopia, the hive mind, reviewers, and intellectuals.
Lionel Trilling was not a neoconservative. He was the very best kind of liberal.
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