“Use the new technologies for the old purposes.” Addressing the 2013 graduating class of Brandeis University, New Republic literary editor Leon Wiesseltier offered a beautiful and timely defense of humanism, the purpose of seeking knowledge, and the arts and humanities.  His speech is reprinted at the New Republic site here under the title “Perhaps Culture is New the Counterculture.” It’s ...

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