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.
On the graduate exhibition of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
On the two new residential colleges at Yale.
On iconoclasm and the restriction of free speech.
Right-wing renaissance on campuses & over-reading Fitzgerald’s fatalism.
On seventy years of Directed Studies at Yale.
On the shambolic standards of academic publishing.
On the ever-rolling wave of tantrums and tumult on America’s campuses.
On the implications of the recent debacle at Middlebury College.
On Paul de Man and Deconstruction.