Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltieris an American writer, critic, amateur philosopher and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. He is currently the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth14 June 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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attitude identity jew
American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.
democracy citizens delinquents
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,
blue boston drunk
The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.
deeds bliss certainty
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
character google age
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.
call effort likes man meant nice personnel sort summon
The effort was to summon to the bosoms of her personnel the sort of man that Barrows likes to call "nice." Nice meant rich.
thinking two said
I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?
Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.