CATEGORY: HISTORY (5 min)
He looks like Karl Marx with glasses.
We’re willing to bet you don’t know who he is.
And you almost certainly didn’t know he was respected by John Henry Newman, Lord Acton, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Or that he changed his mind many times over the course of his life—and believed that was a good thing.
Meet Orestes Brownson
In this week’s Intercollegiate Review essay, Casey Chalk introduces you to a thinker who saw America differently from most.
For Brownson, America wasn’t an idea or a bundle of abstract principles. It was a particular place with particular people, with a particular metaphysical givenness.
And that’s where things get really interesting . . .
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CATEGORY: CULTURE (4 min)
62 years ago this month, novelist and playwright Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Four days after accepting the prize, he gave a speech in Sweden that holds up really well.
So well, in fact, that if you replace “century” with “internet,” you’ve got a crisp challenge thrown directly at you.
The Answer to “Cancel Culture”
In Quillette, the poet Clint Margrave revisits Camus’s famous speech and shows why we need his words more than ever.
Ready to be inspired?
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CATEGORY: CULTURE (15 min)
Who else gets passionate about words? Show your hands.
Language matters. And if poor grammar, not to mention the politicization of words, makes you fume, then this archive pull is for you.
Enjoy Ewa Thompson’s essay on language, postmodernism, and the cost of destroying words.
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