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Issue 37: Coming soon. https://t.co/8bnWbyRyrZ

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Rufus Knuppel on "Critical AI"

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"It is not much more or less than the rediscovery of the ancient ambition to help the downtrodden, updated for a ruling class accustomed to statistics. Like any religious practice, it can be more or less stringent or bonkers, depending on who you ask." https://t.co/2jhuhp7fdy

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We’re still accepting responses to our survey of healthcare practitioners for our upcoming issue, asking the question “What is health for?” Fill it out here:
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[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

"Woodworking, building computers, photography — why is so much of Francis Fukuyama’s memoir concerned with his hobbies?": https://t.co/EfHLThuVnW

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I just read "God, Human, Animal, Machine" (2021), and loved it!

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“We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.” - Simone Weil
Rejecting Enlightenment https://t.co/uNhhJeh1jR

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“In some cases, it feels like the harder you work on those problems, the more likely you are to fail. It’s almost like you’re getting in your own way.” A conversation with Meghan O’Gieblyn:
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John Palattella talks to Meghan O’Gieblyn about her new book, “Will and Attention,” and writing a memoir after losing faith in narrative authority: https://t.co/cmSdafKY9y

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“Rather than being banal, then, the minute description of Fukuyama’s woodworking projects must contain a thesis too explosive to put directly to page.” @_noah_swank on the secret at the heart of Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir:
https://t.co/jxTmCAES9H

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“We tend to think of the will as radically isolated and free to choose anything at any moment. But willpower is often useless in the moment when you are faced with a choice or a temptation.”
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Seeking healthcare providers—doctors, nurses, therapists, acupuncturists, EMTs and more—to help us find out what health is for:
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“Our ability to act well depends on what we can see, and attention is the daily work of conditioning our minds to see a more expansive picture of reality, one that is not clouded by self-interest.”
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“I’m interested in people who are immersed in the struggle to the point where they can articulate it better than anybody. And that’s not always the same person who’s made it to the other side.”
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“I’d started to dismiss my own inner life, somehow, almost unconsciously, because it is just the water in which we swim,” Meghan O’Gieblyn tells John Palattella. “But there are real costs to discounting the mind and what happens there.”
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In a way, Straussianism is a sort of intellectual flower arranging; just one more of those perfectly contentless formal arts with which to whittle away the long afternoon of post-history.
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“I’m interested in people who are immersed in the struggle to the point where they can articulate it better than anybody. And that’s not always the same person who’s made it to the other side.”
https://t.co/cmSdafKY9y

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New online, a conversation with Meghan O’Gieblyn about her new book, “Will and Attention” (@doubledaybooks):
https://t.co/cmSdafKY9y

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New online, a conversation with Meghan O’Gieblyn about why autobiography is an impossible form, and why she wrote “Will and Attention” anyway:
https://t.co/cmSdafKY9y

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Any good Straussian knows that when an author makes a seemingly unjustifiable writing decision, he’s really trying to point you to a secret. What’s the secret at the heart of Francis Fukuyama’s oddly banal new memoir?
https://t.co/jxTmCAES9H

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"Perhaps we don’t need a political fight for recognition. Perhaps, the book seems to suggest, woodworking and the great books are enough." New online, @_noah_swank on Fukuyama's memoir https://t.co/jxTmCAFpZf