Apr 25, 2018
The user-centric university
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As humanities are being undermined, higher education is turning into educational services.
Topic: “Academia”
Feb 16, 2018
Week in review
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On ISIS and the Bolsheviks, the Olympics & “pricing out” free speech.
Feb 02, 2018
Week in review
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On Cuba’s (lack of) literature, MOOCs, Google Translate & more.
Jan 30, 2018
The Critic’s Notebook
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On discussing Joyce, Roger Scruton, Master Drawings & more from the world of culture.
Notes & Comments January 2018
Rigor mortis
On the hetero-patriarchal trappings of “academic rigor” at Purdue.
Oct 27, 2017
Week in review
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On the ACLU, Alex Katz, and Middlebury professor Allison Stanger.
Sep 22, 2017
Week in review
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On illogic in the academy & Italy’s new Caravaggio research institute.
Sep 15, 2017
Week in review
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On Alice Walton’s philanthropy, Harvard’s image predicament & “cultural appropriation.”
Letter from Paris September 2017
Internal rot
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On the graduate exhibition of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
Features September 2017
Yale’s sense of place
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On the two new residential colleges at Yale.