Leon Wieseltier

Having written a poem some years ago (1990) about the incipient and unfathomable promises of new technology--

We have Named more than we have Known,

therefore

The Danger--

I was especially roused by Leon's piece on the front page of the New York Times Book Review section ("Among the Disrupted" January 18, 2015). It's the most exciting piece of expository writing I've read since the first chapter of Camille Paglia's, "Sexual Personae," a screed, a jeremiad, in which you feel each word the writer writes beginning to burn the moment after it was written.

It's the kind of critical thinking that might help save us from ourselves, daring to propose not only that we're worth saving but that nothing can save us but ourselves.