Editor @ChronicleReview. Author of *Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present* @uvapress.
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Grateful to have the chance to expatiate on activism and scholarship in the newest Social Research: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
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Terrific new essay at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Academic Freedom, by Jacob Levy.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/a…
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Here's my @LRB piece about Ralph Ellison, not as novelist but as essayist + correspondent after Invisible Man during the decades he worked on his second novel (posthumously published in unfinished form), with thoughts from Saul Bellow, Irving Howe et al
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n19/…
Lepore on Arendt (and on Lepore):
“this notion of escape, this sort of reverence for the artificial, this denial of our animality, just creeped her the fuck out.”
Jill Lepore: 'Has Harvard Indeed Lost Its Mind?' chronicle.com/article/has-ha…
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“this notion of escape, this sort of reverence for the artificial, this denial of our animality, just creeped her the fuck out.”
Jill Lepore: 'Has Harvard Indeed Lost Its Mind?' chronicle.com/article/has-ha…
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.@Wesleyan_u prof Merve Emre on Anne Carson’s Ecstatic Minimalism “The opposite of error is a kind of divine indifference—not bringing unlike things into considered proximity but strewing them about at random, and delighting in the disorder one creates.”
newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
Thrilled to be speaking with Ashley Rubin and Nicolas Langlitz on this panel in a couple weeks.
Looking forward to this panel at the New School's Center for the American Experience, where we'll discuss academic reform, viewpoint diversity, institutional neutrality, and related issues! If you're in or near NYC Oct. 19, check it out! event.newschool.edu/pluralis…
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“Charles Lamb wrote to Coleridge again: ‘Please to blot out gentle-hearted, and substitute drunken: dog, ragged-head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.’” —Frances Wilson go.nybooks.com/4z19Q8E
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Proud to report that there is now a Public Thinking minor at @UChicago. A milestone for the program and something we hope will inspire more creative thinking at universities about the relationship between humanistic education and public discourse
I had a great time talking to UC Riverside's Barry Lam:
Opinion: Maybe you've heard this promise: a new software will make your campus more efficient. Instead it creates more work.
In this interview Barry Lam calls this inefficiency "Bloat 2.0" characterize by clunky software that takes time away from teaching and governance.
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This is a great piece from the @NewYorker. It captures the spiritual aspect of the AI resistance. This is not my lane, but I think the ministers, philosophers, priests, et al have honestly the most to say these days. h/t @jennfrey.
newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
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What happens when a field has a history in which an ascendant faction within a scholarly community misrepresents evidence in order to punish a political rival. My take on some disputes in anthropology: chronicle.com/article/anthro…
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A version of this new NYRB essay by Mark Lilla appears as the foreword to a new edition of the The Liberalism of Fear, by Judith N. Shklar, that was published today by Harvard University Press: nybooks.com/online/2026/09/2…
What happens when a field has a history in which an ascendant faction within a scholarly community misrepresents evidence in order to punish a political rival. My take on some disputes in anthropology: chronicle.com/article/anthro…
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I reviewed Emily Ogden's new book about Edgar Allan Poe for @newrepublic newrepublic.com/article/2149…
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On Vincent Lloyd's new biography: "Harold Cruse was as pure an autodidact as any 20th-century university scholar. Tuskegee wouldn't hire him. Michigan gave him tenure." chronicle.com/article/black-…
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Important piece: Opinion | The Humanities Need to Do More to Reach Non-Majors chronicle.com/article/the-hu…
A great Friday night read:
NEW: I talked to Joseph Henrich about why he wanted to tackle the issue of politicization in anthropology for the Vanderbilt humanities commission, what he found out, and what he thought of my Q&A with the head of the American Anthropological Association. chronicle.com/article/the-ha…
