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Dr. McGilchrist, Allow Me to Introduce Dr. Voegelin

Been waiting for this since 1952

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Eric Scheske
Apr 28, 2025
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Woke up Saturday morning, wishing I’d stopped one drink sooner on Friday, and hazed through the digital wasteland.

I stumbled on Iain McGilchrist posting excerpts from dusty letters by Sir Richard Clough, a 16th-century Elizabethan fixer in Antwerp. Clough was tattling to his boss, Sir Thomas Gresham, about the Puritan wrecking crew that tore through An…

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