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Leo Marx

Leo Marx is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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An intellectual project and a national ideal.
Leo Marx

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Martha Nussbaum puts the case for the moral and rational superiority of cosmopolitanism with uncommon lucidity, conviction, and eloquence. It is heartening, in an era of erupting nationalisms, to recall the eminently...
Leo Marx

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