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Nov 2024
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#89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy ...

Alex J O'Connor
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Sheehan Quirke is the Cultural Tutor, a writer with 1.7 million followers on X. His work on art, history, and architecture is some of the most widely-enjoyed in the world. He writes a newsletter called the Areopagus.

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