Grad students at University of Michigan went on strike this morning. After dithering too long this morning, I managed to get to the rally just as it was starting. There followed the usual forty minutes or so of checking my phone and making a cowlike noise every now and then as…
There are two possible things I could write about today, and I’ve written about both of them a number of times, so have left myself little new to say…
Perhaps, dear reader, you missed my last eleven notices that my latest Hedgehog essay, on conspiracy theories and the reasons why they’re hard to…
Again, my latest, on conspiracy theories and the reasons why they’re hard to dismiss, is unpaywalled. Here I thought it would be fun to offer some quick…
I had a great deal of fun researching, and gave myself a serious anxiety spiral writing, this essay for Hedgehog Review about conspiracy theories — the…
My third book, which I’m tentatively calling Public Facts (although I’ve also thought of abandoning all subtext and calling it something like Must the…
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New piece on Cormac McCarthy Did everybody but me realize that Cormac McCarthy is pretty funny? I am reliably informed, by the way, that I am, in the…
One of the things that happens when you go to graduate school in the humanities is that they try to deromanticize the humanities for you. This is funny…
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Terrain
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The Washington Review of Books
The Washington Review of Books
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Leaves in the Wind
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chez Aristote
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