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Translation: When you are young, you have raw smarts; when you are old, you have wisdom. When you are young, you can generate lots of facts; when you are old, you know what they mean and how to use them.
From Strength to Strength
Arthur C. Brooks
What is new today is *not* that many humanities professors are openly political in their research or teaching. What is new is that departments like English at elite universities have become officially politicized at the behest of university bureaucrats.
The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction - The Atlantic
Tyler Austin Harper
If we read more slowly, won’t that just mean that we get through less text before succumbing to distraction? I’m afraid that just such a result is immensely likely—unless we do some work to alter our habits. That work can be done, and it’s worth doing;
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
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