Professor Douglas Dowland says it is. “Disenchantment, like any other low-grade toxicity, spreads and accumulates. It grips to us like barnacles as we move through our day. It encourages us to retreat from the spaces we find vital and nourishing.” Read more from Inside Higher Education.
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