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Sep262009

Shallow

Over 20 years ago the late Irving Kristol noticed that New York was no longer the place where "large ideas" are discussed, and thought that this was due to the rise of the universities. In hindsight, what seems to have happened is that a scientistic, pragmatist culture just seems not to care very much about large ideas.

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