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I am proud to serve on the board of advisors for the Prohuman Foundation, whose work is so important in our age of obsession with group identities. Without the Foundation's gentle reminder, we risk forgetting that each of us is a unique individual whose delightful peculiarities and idiosyncratic experiences of the world cannot be predicted or captured by coarse demographic categories. The Prohuman outlook also reminds us that we all share that most important property, our humanity, which grants us, as finite mortal beings, shared capacities of rationality, joy, sorrow, and transcendence.
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Jake Mackey is Associate Professor of Classics at Occidental College, where he teaches Greek and Latin languages and literature and their transformative reception in Revolutionary and Early America by our Founding Fathers and Mothers, both black and white. He is the faculty advisor for the student Persuasion club, which provides a space for the free exchange of ideas on campus. He grew up between Austin, TX, and a small village in Kerala, in south India. He is the author of Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (Princeton University Press, 2022); co-author/editor (with Lawrence Eppard and Lee Jussim) of Poisoning of the American Mind (George Mason University Press, forthcoming 2024); and a founding member of Free Black Thought.
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