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Witty, humane, learned . . . By assimilating what was once radical to his variety of liberalism, Gopnik hopes to prove to contemporary progressives that they can champion the woke causes of the 21st century without surrendering the liberal heritage of free speech, rule of law, scientific inquiry and individual conscience. - New York Times Written with Adam Gopnik's signature wit and charm, A Thousand Small Sanities is also a clarion call at a moment of great danger. This fierce, capacious, and startlingly intelligent defense of a whole political, social, and moral order is essential reading for our time. - Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve A smart, exhilarating defense of the liberal tradition - Publishers Weekly Watch and enjoy another mind confront the world at its most problematic. It feels like a dying art - Tim Adams, Observer, on In Mid-Air The distinctive brilliance of Gopnik's essays lies in his ability to pick up a subject one would never have believed possible to think deeply about then cover it in thoughts. He is truly able to see the whole world in a grain of sand - Alain de Botton Gopnik has written with entrancing penetration on just about everything - Spectator A dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft - Malcolm Gladwell Brilliantly insightful - Sunday Times

An elegant, impassioned, and rigorously reasoned effort to re-humanize the most humanistic moral and political philosophy our civilization has produced... -- Maria Popova Witty, humane, learned . . . By assimilating what was once radical to his variety of liberalism, Gopnik hopes to prove to contemporary progressives that they can champion the woke causes of the 21st century without surrendering the liberal heritage of free speech, rule of law, scientific inquiry and individual conscience. -- David Frum * New York Times * Adam Gopnik is one of the greatest thinkers and wordsmiths of our age, and this book may be his most masterful, meaningful, and enjoyable yet. He turns his sweeping intellectual imagination into a conversation with a cross-partisan American longing for a renewal of common life that scarcely knows how to name itself. In an age in which we've connected ourselves with scale but without quality, and fractured communal cohesion in part by forgetting our shared liberal inheritance, this book is essential, redemptive reading * Krista Tippett, host of On Being * A smart, exhilarating defense of the liberal tradition * Publishers Weekly * Written with Adam Gopnik's signature wit and charm, A Thousand Small Sanities is also a clarion call at a moment of great danger. This fierce, capacious, and startlingly intelligent defense of a whole political, social, and moral order is essential reading for our time. * Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve *

Witty, humane, learned . . . By assimilating what was once radical to his variety of liberalism, Gopnik hopes to prove to contemporary progressives that they can champion the woke causes of the 21st century without surrendering the liberal heritage of free speech, rule of law, scientific inquiry and individual conscience. - New York Times Written with Adam Gopnik's signature wit and charm, A Thousand Small Sanities is also a clarion call at a moment of great danger. This fierce, capacious, and startlingly intelligent defense of a whole political, social, and moral order is essential reading for our time. - Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve A smart, exhilarating defense of the liberal tradition - Publishers Weekly Watch and enjoy another mind confront the world at its most problematic. It feels like a dying art - Tim Adams, Observer, on In Mid-Air The distinctive brilliance of Gopnik's essays lies in his ability to pick up a subject one would never have believed possible to think deeply about then cover it in thoughts. He is truly able to see the whole world in a grain of sand - Alain de Botton Gopnik has written with entrancing penetration on just about everything - Spectator A dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft - Malcolm Gladwell Brilliantly insightful - Sunday Times

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Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

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