The Veiled Collusion of the Arts and Sciences

How those academic disciplines are unlikely partners in the domestication of the wilderness

Image by Somesh Kesarla Suresh, from Unsplash

Decades before the more familiar American culture war between the polarized tribes of the so-called smug, cheese-eating elites and the basket of MAGA deplorables, there was a more rarefied cultural conflict that simmered in the Ivory…