Jim Willis

Philip F. Gura, professor, American literature and culture, UNC Chapel Hill – American Transcendentalism | Lecture | WGBH Forum Network | Free Online Lectures

Philip F. Gura, professor, American literature and culture, UNC Chapel Hill – American Transcendentalism | Lecture | WGBH Forum Network | Free Online Lectures

Philip F. Gura traces the intellectual genealogy of America’s first group of public intellectuals, who profoundly shaped 19th century American literature and social reform. Gura tells the fascinating…

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  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]

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