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Shruti Rajagopalan: The Political Economy of Gulliver’s Travels
Last week, the day after the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver’s Travels, I sat down with my colleague to discuss Swift’s great novel. Shruti is an economist with a law degree, so her delight in the Travels is accompanied by...
Galen Strawson responds to my essay about Locke’s *Essay*
Locke in his portraits often seems sad, and it’s genial to think that he plays in his philosophy. Nor is it implausible, even when we take play in its core sense, and not simply as lively curiosity (Melanie Klein’s ‘epistemophilic instinc...
Who speaks the first line of Pride and Prejudice?
As you have no doubt seen, in the trailer for the forthcoming Netflix adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, by Dolly Alderton, the famous opening line is spoken by Mrs Bennet. Several people have said they think this is a mistake. I disagree....
Let me have war, say I.
This essay was first published online by Liberties in 2024. Liberties can be found at and on Substack.
When the anti-republican Action Française group wanted to incite a revolution against democracy in Paris in 1934, they chose to...
AI consciousness and fictional characters
The question of whether or not AI is conscious seems to me to be related to the question of what we believe about fictional characters. In his recent interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Tyler Cowen proposed that Dwarkesh has some “AI psychosis”...
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Writer. Critic. Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. \Literature, history, liberalism, philosophy.
Dana Gioia is a poet and critic. He is the author of “Can Poetry Matter?” and “Poetry as Enchantment.”
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