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

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…