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The Village Voice – utopian in origin, dysfunctional in execution – left a remarkable imprint on the culture Philosophy 5 days ago 0 0
In the 1980s, David Bromwich was hopeful that academic politics would grow less narrow and self-involved. That didn’t happen Philosophy 5 days ago 0 0