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Nicholas Carr On The Reversal Of Power Since C. P. Snow’s “Two Cultures”

“The two camps, Snow observed, might as well have lived on different planets. Along with the knowledge divide came a power divide. To the public, the literary intellectuals — Snow pointed to the poet and critic T. S. Eliot as the “archetypal figure” — constituted the cultural elite… Today, the divides remain, but the power […]

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