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The paradox of teaching is that to teach it well you have to want to do something else. Any man who takes teaching seriously has always to resist the temptation to prophesy and to preach.
— Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (1950)

3w ago

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforting stability of accepted doctrine and the terrible freedom of intellectual adventure.

1mo ago

noahpinion.blog

Scoring the Jensen-Dwarkesh debate

It's all too easy to slip into doing a softball puff piece — fawning all over your guests and treating them like gurus dispensing wisdom from a mountain. This is an even easier trap for someone like Dwarkesh, who is very young and who is primarily known for interviewing people instead of for dispensing his own thoughts. So it's extremely impressive that he consistently avoids this trap — he always manages to challenge and provoke his subjects, rather than just letting them spout their usual talking points.

1mo ago

The best ideas are often dangerous ideas. You're not supposed to think them. And if you do, you're not supposed to say them. But the truth doesn't care about your comfort.

1mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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