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If you’re reading this then you’re probably already aware of how much digital technology has insinuated itself into our daily routines. But just how much
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In the July 31, 2006, issue of The New Republic, Damon Linker reviews two books about Leo Strauss, including Steven B. Smith’s Reading Leo Strauss:
Today’s Wall Street Journal features a review by Matt Ridley of Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues The book is, says Ridley, “an exhaustive philosophical treatise
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In yesterday’s New York Times Book Review Robert Alter reviewed Steven B. Smith’s Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism. In his review, Alter examined Leo
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