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Catholic sensualist. Hostessing fundamentalist. Culture for all. Senior Editor, US @unherd.
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A Left case for the Great Books Naomi Kanakia loves the classics, despite herself

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By Valerie Stivers 
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A critic defends the Great Books. Credit: Getty BooksHillsdale CollegeLiteratureNaomi KanakiaThe Great BooksTransgenderism We don’t get to choose our fans. Naomi Kanakia, for example, probably doesn’t want me — a religious-minded, gender-critical writer — to review her book, What’s So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though it Might Destroy You), published on Tuesday.
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A Left case for the Great Books¬Ý

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Culture 5 hours ago Travel to Italy and Algeria in these two brilliant, translated mysteries NPR - John Powers • 5h I've always loved mystery novels that take me inside different cultures. While lots of English language crime writers are good at evoking other lands — think of Philip Kerr's Nazi Berlin or Cara Black's Paris — the richest portraits come to us in translations of books by homegrown writers.
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‘Suicidal empathy’ is fake science Humans are more than animals

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Popular anti-woke intellectual Gad Saad. Credit: Gad Saad gad saadSilence of the LambsSubway CrimeSuicidal EmpathyThe Parasitic Mind In the strange case of Gad Saad, we have a public intellectual and cultural firebrand whose most intelligent haters tend to half-agree with him. Saad is a Canadian professor of marketing with a background in evolutionary psychology, originally of Lebanese Jewish origin, whose new book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, was Amazon’s no.
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