GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1831
“In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.”
(The beginning of “Kubla Khan,” a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
HOW WE GOT HERE
Based on “Cynical Theories,” a book by British liberals Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay published in 2020.
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