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The Trump Restoration
Some among us have a vague memory of a New York Times article years ago, written in a parodic vein, perhaps for April Fool’s Day or some other…
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“HR Managers of the Human Soul”
On Our Own American Zhdanovshchina
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Justin Smith-Ruiu
Neo-Utilitarians Are Utter Philistines
1. Here on the banks of the Seine it can be hard to notice new trends in the Anglosphere before they have already arrived in the phase of their full…
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My Kind of Conservatism
“L’orgueil de la victoire m’est insupportable.” —Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1848-50)
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Can the Humanities Survive?
(Yes, But Not Like Before.)
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The Roaring of Things (A Guest Essay from Sam Kriss)
Adventures in the Tarot
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Sam Kriss
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The Internet Is Killing Science Too
RFK Jr. and the Existential Project of America
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Three Telltale Signs of Online Post-Literacy
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Only Idiots Care about IQ
On the Great Ohio Cat Massacre and Its Cultural Shockwaves
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The Death of the University
Part Two
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Against “Euthanasia”
Plus, the Worrisome Global Acceleration of Gender Segregation
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Notes on the Political Economy of the 21st-Century University
1. It was already the mid-1990s by the time I arrived at the Humboldt University of Berlin as a wandering graduate student.
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