Other intellectuals, such as the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, maintain that English serves as yet another tool to entrench British and American culture.
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
For example, the magazine played host to heated debates on the place of Christianity in Straits Chinese culture, given that some intellectuals associated Christian evangelism with attitudes of European racial supremacy.
Sauer’s optimism seems almost to be intended as a rebuke to the dour ideal of intellectual seriousness that runs from such canonical thinkers as Arthur Schopenhauer in the nineteenth century to Theodor Adorno in the twentieth.
Nikhil Krishnan,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
Solo Mindset Collaboration doesn’t happen with magical thinkers.
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