1. Research a social issue. 2. Start a blog. 3. ??? 4. Become a public intellectual! Or not.
Four Easy Steps
Finding “the fountainhead of the humanities”
Tracing the biological origins of aesthetics, Harvard Professor E.O. Wilson argues for a tighter bond between the humanities and the sciences and identifies the metaphor as the wedge that will keep them forever divided.
OH, THE WORDS
2012 is off to a good start for DIAGRAM. In February, their fourth print anthology will be released. Their next issue will be an “ALL-ESSAY SPECTACULAR” (caps their own), and they’ve just released their latest issue on their site.
A 19th-Century It Girl
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Tochi Onyebuchi on Writing to Abate the Terror
More on Stefan Zweig
Wes Anderson’s latest movie sparked a minor literary revival after it came out that much of it was based on the works of Stefan Zweig. Jason Diamond argued that Zweig may finally be getting the due he deserves in America. At the LARB, Tara Isabella Burton reads the author’s collected stories.
The second paragraph made me check out. We’re less educated than we were forty or fifty years ago? There isn’t a single example of a public intellectual writing today who is as intelligent or well read or profound as those titans of yesteryear because…what, human beings now are just dumber? Please.