The scholar's responsibility is to ask difficult questions w... - Wendy Doniger

"The scholar's responsibility is to ask difficult questions while maintaining intellectual humility about what can be known."

Wendy Doniger Wisdom

Historian of Religion American Born 1940 (age 86)

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