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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
The great Enlightenment impresario Denis Diderot was once a pornographer, pamphleteer, and prisoner.
This is a long online article from the New Yorker Magazine, but one that kept my attention.
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