Nick Burns, Author at The American Spectator

Nick Burns, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

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Nick Burns is editor and production manager at Americas Quarterly.

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What Are the Great Books Good For?

by Nick Burns | Jan 4, 2022

Most of the terms in which the ongoing debate over the “Great Books” is carried on aren’t helpful. Calling people white supremacists for wanting students to read Kant, writing substance-free encomia to the beauty of Western civilization — neither of…