When I was a junior at Princeton, having gotten my interest piqued by a course in Renaissance literature that ended up changing my life, I went into the bookstore and picked up a copy of Augustine’s Confessions. I was stunned. All the supposedly modern questions about the universe and the nature of man were already there, and with answers that I hadn’…
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