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In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

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I’ve always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She’s a real intellectual, but she’s got enormous communicative skills and she’s got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

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If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that’d be too bad. That’d be a shame.

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May 14, 2024

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that’d be too bad. That’d be a shame.

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May 14, 2024

I’ve always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She’s a real intellectual, but she’s got enormous communicative skills and she’s got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

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