John Armstrong

Fuse/Public Humanist Commentary — Spreading a Desire for the Good Things in Life

August 17, 2011
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I have written another commentary for the Mass Humanities blog, The Public Humanist. It is a reaction, admiring but skeptical, to John Armstrong’s recent polemic IN SEARCH OF CIVILIZATION: REMAKING A TARNISHED IDEA.

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