What strikes me is that the capacity to choose to do things for their own sakes defines a free people. The highest arts of the mind, most freely pursued, as our whole tradition has recognized until lately, are paradoxically the most useful of all… (essay by Glenn Arbery)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/08/knowledge-for-own-sake-glenn-arbery.html

What strikes me is that the capacity to choose to do things for their own sakes defines a free people. The highest arts of the mind, most freely pursued, as our whole tradition has recognized until lately, are paradoxically the most useful of all… (essay by Glenn Arbery)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/08/knowledge-for-own-sake-glenn-arbery.html