📖 **A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb?**

"_It’s not all straight philosophy. Jeffries gives us affectionate readings of Don Quixote and Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet, dips into Shakespeare’s fools and the rich menu of stupidities available in King Lear, as well as making the odd excursus into cognitive science._"

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/02/a-short-history-of-stupidity-by-stuart-jeffries-review-comfortably-dumb.

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