The Lessons of the Prophets
(Illustration by The Free Press; Photos via Getty, Alamy, Miriam Berkley, and Sharon Spaulding, Dennett Family Archive)
Our series on nine late, great thinkers has concluded—but their voices continue to resonate with one another.
For the past nine Saturdays, we brought you a new series called “The Prophets,” profiling thinkers from the past who proved uncannily prescient about our current moment. As the editor of the series, I promised in its introduction to offer “people whose words, work, and life illuminated something essential about the increasingly strange times we find our…
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