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Sunday, March 28, 2021

Santayana

Questions posed in Democracy in America (class), based on a passage in Kurt Andersen's Evil Geniuses.

Santayana is (was?) my mentor Lachs's favorite... 
William James (who was Santayana's teacher before he was his colleague) 
described GS's philosophy as possessing "a perfection of rottenness"... 

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