Leon Wieseltier — American Writer born on June 14, 1952,

Leon Wieseltier is an American writer, critic, amateur philosopher and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. He is currently the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic... (wikipedia)

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.