One thing he noticed was violence, and University of Chicago Press just published a collection of his essays on the topic,“ Atrocities of the Mind.” What they show is someone living through terrible times with courage, openness, curiosity and a refusal to exempt himself from the diagnosis.
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One thing he noticed was violence, and University of Chicago Press just published a collection of his essays on the topic, “Atrocities of the Mind.” What they show is someone living through terrible times with courage, openness, curiosity and a refusal to exempt himself from the diagnosis. We could use a few Dwight Macdonalds these days.(University of Chicago Press/TNS)
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