Adam Gopnik on Darwin’s Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius

Darwin’s singular genius of presenting and defending his ideas, and what it teaches us about the art of preempting criticism, is what New Yorker contributor and essayist extraordinaire Adam Gopnik explores in a portion of the altogether magnificent "Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life" — a slim but in many ways enormous book, for it tackles some of the most abiding and unanswerable enormities of existence.
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