New Problems?
Silvano D'Agostino
Some time early last semester, it must’ve been September or October, but it feels like forever ago, a few other students and I had the opportunity to have lunch with the very interesting Jill Lepore. At some point in the conversation, Lepore said the following:
“Very few problems are actually new.”
~Jill Lepore
I haven’t quite been able to let Lepore’s statement go — it’s been on my mind a lot; I agree with it in a way, yet I want to scream bloody in another.
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