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Tuesday Essay: "The Great Relearning"

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Elm’s Tuesday luncheon series features discussions of short but thought-provoking essays on a variety of topics.

Many of the political, social, and artistic movements that shaped the twentieth century were marked by the impulse to “start from zero,” escaping the past and beginning anew. But, Tom Wolfe argues in “The Great Relearning,” the greatest lesson of the last century may be that this is a disastrously mistaken way of thinking about progress.

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