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The blog of Arts & Letters daily describes about the different topics on Philosophy, literature, ideas, criticism, history, art, music from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Arts & Letters Daily
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Gender’s enemies. Judith Butler targets conservative Christians, white supremacists, and trans-exclusionary radical feminists ..read more
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For women among the New York Intellectuals, men wanted to sleep with you or write like you. Or both ..read more
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Joseph Epstein, with scores to settle, wrote a memoir. Why was he fired as editor of The American Scholar ..read more
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Reading Shakespeare in its original English can be hard going at first. But his example will always show us what is possible ..read more
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“Can God create a stone so heavy that He cannot lift it?” Paradoxes sound absurd, but they can be logically sustained ..read more
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The physical world is full of inefficiencies. Cue the “digital twin,” where they can be ironed out virtually then reflected back into reality ..read more
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Jesus, and other magi. Early Christianity variants championed Pontius Pilate, Apollonius, and a holy snake ..read more
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Marilynne Robinson: “I consider the Bible to be the most complex document on the planet ..read more
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Cities have become frictionless, optimized sites of consumerism and productivity. In other words, they have lost their humanity ..read more
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The Monster of Ravenna, the Monk Calf, and, of course, the Pope Ass. Why were 16th-century luminaries printing pamphlets on monsters ..read more