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I Am Not Proof of the American Dream

By Tara Westover — 2022

For kids today from poorer backgrounds, the path I took through education no longer exists.

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What We Owe to Others: Simone Weil’s Radical Reminder

She believed we have obligations to attend to our fellow humans. How could that spirit change our politics?

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Robert Zaretsky
2018
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Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation

In this 1943 essay, written during the last year of her life, which she spent working with Gen. de Gaulle in the struggle for French liberation, Weil makes the case for the existence of a transcendent and universal moral law, and describes the social responsibilities that accompany it.

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Richard Rees (Translator)
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