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Andrew Sullivan on The Classics, Independence, and the Human Experience

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Dark Ages

I was thinking about this after the killing of george floyd and all these sort of anti rases, books become no sly popular. I don't really know anyone that's actually reading them and talking about them. And then i went and i reread ellison's invisible man which is about all those things right? There's a police shooting, there's a race riot, there's marxis. But it's also a beautiful, provocative work of literature from a person who loves the classics - written in 19 56. So perhaps we're just ina little bit of a dip. But ultimately, a they win back out. He says: "The human mind gets forard

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