Sublime

But Dewey, born in 1859 (the same year as Henri Bergson, who shared many of these concerns), was part of a generation whose intellectual formation occurred when it was still possible, if not excusable, for the idea of novelty to be explored independently of the logistics of capitalist production and circulation.

A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.

“I was viewed as smart, as a nerd, not as a good guy or a bad guy,” said Sam. “Not really viewed as a person. Smart and inoffensive and maybe not all that human.” Worse, he didn’t totally disagree with his classmates’ assessment. “I didn’t feel misunderstood. I felt like their half-assed guesses were in the right ballpark.”

The Paper Millionaire, by some Arab-turned-Englishman named Roger Shashoua. He sat

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