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The Mark Lilla Influence on Politics
Mark lilla's best known book, at least to a broader audience in non academic circles, was called what the reckless mind? And that book was about intellectuals getting involved in politics. So i kind of feel like one thing maybe that i see in your work, and that you took from this time with lilla too, as a certain understanding of the way ideas in the intellectual life relate to politics. Is that true? Yes, absolutely. I think it ibean, i can't speak for lilla's trajectory and how he got to this position, i do think for him it does run through his experience with religion,. whereas for me, it's, well, as we'll get