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THE RECKLESS MIND: Intellectuals in Politics.
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics By Mark Lilla.
Not reckless, mind you, but individuals who can break free from convention and really see and feel and taste the next thing.
"The Reckless Mind" is "not a systematic treatise," as Lilla tells us, "since what it has to say can best be learned by studying intellectual and political lives in concrete historical situations".
I will be holidaying in Westport, the loveliest town in the west of Ireland, where I'll be reading David Rieff's In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies (Yale £14.99), a controversial but timely work, and rereading the timelessly timely The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (NYRB £9.99), by Mark Lilla.
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The idea that the president would discuss sensitive national security matters in a semi-public space is mind-bendingly reckless, and the Washington Post points out that the sloppiness didn't end there.
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