Chuck Zumbrun

Tales from Skunk Hill

A way of life is dying

“Libraries, museums, and schools are fragile institutions; they cannot long survive violent assaults. A way of life was dying.”

Stephen Greenblatt in “The Swerve”

Greenblatt is writing about what happened to the center of learning that was Alexandria around 400 CE. Or maybe right here today in 2024.

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