The Columbian philosopher Nicolas Gómez Dávila (1913-1994) was taught Latin, Greek and the classics by private tutors, never went to university and then, living mostly as a recluse, rarely left his library of over 30,000 books on the history of the West. His friends called him ‘Don Colacho.’ President Alberto Llera offered him a position as an adviser i…
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