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EI Talks... Sully, Richelieu, Mazarin

Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts

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The Parallels Between Predestination and Twitter Anxiety

Since the advent of the internet, it appears that we've never had access to so much information and yet somehow we appear to be less collectively well-read. And I think there's something about Twitter when people are getting the response and they get the heart on Twitter for a statement they've made. There's a horrible anxiety when people use social media. Despite all our latent anxieties when it comes to dealing with this seemingly overwhelming abundance of information, cognitive overload, etc. These are concerns impacted by the novel that you have in the early modern era. It is one of the reasons, of course, why we should be studying early modern history. We should look back at these three great French

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