Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Collection title: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Diversity Equity Accessibility and Inclusion (DEAI) Collection. DSI Foreword by Mark A.

“[O]ur picture of ourselves has become too grand,” Iris Murdoch lamented in 1997. “We have lost the vision of a reality separate from ourselves.” Today, humility is considered a vice in many corners ...