Hacker News with Generative AI: Intellectual History

From Philosophy to Power: The Misuse of René Girard by Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance (salmagundi.skidmore.edu)
This past summer, I was surprised to encounter a face I knew in two most unexpected places.
Chromophobia (press.uchicago.edu)
The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through color - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought.