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Let’s Go to Mars Already
Tom Wolfe recently raised the hopes of philosophy graduate students everywhere by suggesting that NASA needs philosophers working in the space program. In his op-ed commemorating the fortieth anniversary of one of humanity’s greatest triumphs, Wolfe recounts the ambition of those heady days in the late 1960s....
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The Suburbs, Beirut, and Nostalgia
From an essay about the recently-departed English science fiction writer, J.G. Ballard, I found this comment interesting: "People who read Empire of the Sun have often said to me, 'What a strange life, how unusual,” he told the BBC World Service in 2002. And I say to them, actually, the life I led...."
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The Meaning is the Message
In his contribution to a collection of contentious essays on Marshall McLuhan* (a wonderful find at a book sale—like an ancient scroll describing a famous battle), Anthony Burgess makes a common but important observation. He notes that the formation McLuhan received before he entered into....
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All the Books You Will Meet
Professor Mark Edmundson of the University of Virginia is an indispensible commentator on the life of the universities in our country, and anyone who cares about the state of the humanities should read his essays. His latest offering, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, is typically....
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Late Thoughts on The Wrestler
Does "The Wrestler" have a happy ending? I am as happy as anyone that Mickey Rourke has made a comeback, and for that reason, I was excited to see "The Wrestler." I expected it to be a comeback story as inspiring as Mickey’s real one. This past week, I finally got around to ....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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