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• May 11, 2022

  Moravia and Borges

  I came across, in a Janet Malcolm essay [1], this quote from a short story of Alberto Moravia’s called “The Wardrobe:” Since the door was only half closed, I got a jumbled view of my mother and father on the bed, one on top of the other. Mortified, hurt, horror-struck, I had the hateful sensation…
• May 9, 2022

  On liberal arts and flourishing

  I wrote this a few years ago as part of my application to my current program, the College Fellows at UVA. My thoughts have since evolved (…or devolved into something less optimistic about the future of academia, tbh), but remain faithful to the general spirit.At the beginning of the new decade, an algorithmically generated link…