Remembering Jacques Barzun, scholar & culture warrior. Born in France in 1907, Barzun had been a presence on the American intellectual and academic scene since the 1950s. From his perch at Columbia ...
The wisdom and relevance of his salvo against Darwin, Marx, and Wagner endures, 80 years later. Eighty years ago, in that ominous year 1941, the Franco-American historian Jacques Barzun (1903–2012) ...
My last post, Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America, spotlighted the problem of anti-reason in American society, pointing out that it is widespread and doing much harm. A few days after the piece ...
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