How … could a woman who was so inadequate a mother, so untrustworthy a friend, so out of touch with the most commonplace realities, have been a penetrating analyst of culture and politics? The short answer is that she wasn’t.
The mention in the lede that Simone Weill "starved herself for the good of humankind" may be inaccurate. One of Weil's early biographers said that Weil actually asked for food during her last illness and may just have been too ill to eat.
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