💬 Opinion Sep 5, 2026 · Anthony Esolen

Disembodied Autonomy

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Before the advent of television, and now other and far more intrusive forms of mass media, it was hard for slogans to get any traction. Yes, you might see a bit of parroting going on in newspapers, whose writers, under the pressure of daily deadlines, might naturally reach for whatever handy phrases were in the air.  But I have a very large collection of American magazines, in bound volumes of six months each, from about 1870 to 1920, and I am continually struck by the high literary and intellec

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