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Razib Khan's avatar

the decline of humanities tho can be chalked up to the pivot toward fashionable deconstruction and politics in those fields to make them more "applied" and "practical" (praxis) rather than focus on their elevation of the eternal things and timeless beauty that knows no bounds of time or culture

Sing, Goddess, sing of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus!

Sheril Kirshenbaum's avatar

I’ve been deeply back into the classics this year. Over and over and over again, it’s so familiar to events in our lifetime.