George Scialabba

George Scialabba is a frequent contributor to Commonweal. His essay collection, The Sealed Envelope, will be published in 2025.

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Who Decides?

Yuval Levin reconstructs the conflict over Edmund Burke’s angry ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ and Thomas Paine’s incandescent reply, ‘The Rights of Man.’
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Voracious

Sartre was unquestionably one of those by whom language lives, and vice versa. Many people read voraciously; Sartre wrote voraciously.
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