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...Disbelief can be useful even in finding a hypothesis. Put on your skeptic??s glasses, look at dominant schools of thought for their holes and shaky assumptions, and then find an alternative explanation or argument. I found that after a few months of studying money imagery in fugitive slave autobiographies that I could question the dominant critical narrative about these texts. They were not just stories of freedom through literacy; they were stories of freedom through numeracy, or mathematical ability and market savvy. Polemic is one of my favorite kinds of essays, but I have found that...
And—most pertinently for us—in recent thrillers, “Harvard” functions as convenient shorthand for “skeptic?? and “snob.” Robert Langdon, hero of The Da Vinci Code, is a “Harvard symbologist.” NBC’s forthcoming miniseries based on the Book of Revelation (and catchily entitled Revelations—I can’t wait!) features a skeptical Harvard astrophysicist, Professor Richard Massey. All of this augurs well, we feel, for the success of our novel...
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