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What a writer, and what a speaker. See her if you get a chance. Rather than dragging through some uninteresting confrontation with Taleb, spend that time reading her review essays at NYRB - http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/beard-mary/ . Some are subscriber-only, but many are open.

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There are also her essays in the London Review of Books [1] and, as mentioned in the article, her long-running blog for the Times Literary Supplement, A Don's Life [2].

[1]: https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/mary-beard [2]: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/category/a-dons-life/

Seems to be mostly pretentious over written prose with little to say:

e.g. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/01/12/do-classics-have-...

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