The world explained every day
Do you want the world explained to you every day? Read this site. It is an “aggregator”, meaning it pulls together material from many sources. But I know that it’s much more than that. It’s both a daily reminder of the riches available in the publications of the world and a map to finding those riches.
Since 1998, “Arts & Letters Daily” has been searching tirelessly for online articles providing the links that make it possible for us to put them on our screens with a single click. The editors show a master way to find, in the most obscure places, material that pleases, surprises and stimulates all those who like reading.
The Founding Editor (1998-2010) Denis Dutton, a philosophy professor, once wrote: “Science does not follow a clear road to truth; better is the idea of a meandering river in flood and drought ....”.
If it has a political tendency, I would say this website is libertarian, as well as conservative, in the sense that its openness to new thinking is the opposite of conservatism.
A&LD, with its elegant design, resembles the little papers that were passed around in 18th-century London coffee houses, sometimes called “the penny university” because you could read all the news if you paid a penny for coffee. “Arts & Letters Daily” is totally free!
After Dutton’s death, actual editors treat even the most serious thinking as news and proudly continue to display a motto borrowed from Seneca: “Veritas odit moras” - “Truth hates delay”.
They continue to focus on subjects that count. They watch developments, sort things out, tell you what you need to know. It doesn’t produce profits. Over time A&LD’ s ability to make connections may turn out to be even more important than the stock market. It feeds human minds.
Since 1998, “Arts & Letters Daily” has been searching tirelessly for online articles providing the links that make it possible for us to put them on our screens with a single click. The editors show a master way to find, in the most obscure places, material that pleases, surprises and stimulates all those who like reading.
The Founding Editor (1998-2010) Denis Dutton, a philosophy professor, once wrote: “Science does not follow a clear road to truth; better is the idea of a meandering river in flood and drought ....”.
If it has a political tendency, I would say this website is libertarian, as well as conservative, in the sense that its openness to new thinking is the opposite of conservatism.
A&LD, with its elegant design, resembles the little papers that were passed around in 18th-century London coffee houses, sometimes called “the penny university” because you could read all the news if you paid a penny for coffee. “Arts & Letters Daily” is totally free!
After Dutton’s death, actual editors treat even the most serious thinking as news and proudly continue to display a motto borrowed from Seneca: “Veritas odit moras” - “Truth hates delay”.
They continue to focus on subjects that count. They watch developments, sort things out, tell you what you need to know. It doesn’t produce profits. Over time A&LD’ s ability to make connections may turn out to be even more important than the stock market. It feeds human minds.
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