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Great Minds, Flawed Lives

Tony Shenton asks, should we cancel the compromised intellectual, or read them?

There’s a particular kind of discomfort that doesn’t feel purely intellectual. It feels personal. It arises when a thinker who helped shape your moral or political outlook turns out to be, in some significant way, morally compromised.

For many readers, intellectual life is not formed only by arguments, but by voices. One of those voices for me was Noam Chomsky.

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