Interview With Alan Jacobs, Mostly About Auden, Pt. 1

Auden's fearlessness

I have enjoyed Alan Jacobs’s work for many years now. In the avowed-Christian-intellectual circles that I aspired to join as an undergrad, he was already, in the late 1990s, an inescapable presence, and I found his pieces for Books & Culture very entertaining and his ideas about the hermeneutics of charity very useful. (He taught at Wheaton then — that …