Reposted by @herrera87.bsky.socialNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I believe in the humanities as a mode of intellectual discipline without which a human being is incomplete, but I don't buy that the humanities improve people morally. 381 8
Reposted by @herrera87.bsky.socialNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. - W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939 032 3
Reposted by @herrera87.bsky.socialSamuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025“No one can accept the precepts of neoliberalism and consider themselves Christian." -Jorge Maria Bergoglio 1225 22
Reposted by @herrera87.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/12/2024And yet here we are. 14870351341 7K
Reposted by @herrera87.bsky.socialNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024QOTD: "No past experience, however rich, and no historical research, however thorough, can save the living generation the creative task of finding their own answers and shaping their own future. ― Alexander Gerschenkron 0153 15
