What Shapes Our Desires?

Luke Burgis Discusses the Power of Fiction, Health of the Humanities, Mimetic Desire, the Woke/Anti-Woke Binary, and the Three City Problem

Jul 17, 2024

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"I'm sharing an interview that I did with the always excellent Joel Miller about my history with books, a few of my own Augustinian moments, the formation of a moral imagination, and some other odds and ends and burnt rib ends such as why I continue to think we're primed for a bull market in the humanities (and various tangents, like how tired I am of the word 'woke' and 'anti-woke' alike)."

- Luke Burgis

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure Luke Burgis is the only person to have graduated from both NYU’s Stern School of Business and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

I first encountered him through his book Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, which I read and reviewed in 2022. It was one of my top reads for the year. Then agai…

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