I’m excited to say that I’ve been invited to join the team at Kairos, an online peer-reviewed academic journal, as their Communications Editor. I am really excited for the opportunity. I admire and enjoy Kairos because it works to expand the definition of what academic work can be, publishing podcasts, visual art, interactive texts, and more. I also […]
Continue reading →A.O. Scott wrote a smart, long, deep piece about the death of adulthood in art and culture in contemporary times. He’s right about most stuff, though very, very safe about everything. It has of course inspired and will inspire a vast number of Hot Takes. Some will praise him. Some of them will be part […]
Continue reading →Hey gang, I’m writing to let you all know that I’ll be blogging for Andrew Sullivan while he’s on vacation next week. Feel free to come and check it out, starting Monday morning. I’m excited.
Continue reading →Dear Dr. Wise, I am writing to ask that you please reconsider the decision made by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to rescind an offer of employment to Dr. Steve Salaita. As an academic and a public writer, I am deeply disturbed by the consequences for intellectual and academic freedom when scholars are judged […]
Continue reading →The whole “I’m not even going to link to/quote from/respond to X thing that somebody wrote….” deal. 1. Not linking to, quoting from, or responding to that thing does not mean it does not exist. 2. If you’re writing those words, you already are responding to it.
Continue reading →I’d like to take a minute to make a couple of reading recommendations and to offer an explanation. First, I can’t recommend this Jacobin piece by Allie Gross highly enough. It’s an exhaustively researched piece of investigative journalism, and totally damning of Detroit’s charter school and the profiteers who have created them. Second, I’d like to recommend […]
Continue reading →Back in 2011, the Libyan intervention was a bit of an obsession of mine. It wasn’t just that we were starting yet another deployment of American military power in the Middle East. It was how desperate liberals, after years of complaining about Iraq, wanted to be seen as tough, cool, and serious. Self-styled liberals and progressives […]
Continue reading →Man, this dude is incorrigible. @dunndunndunnTL;DR Freddie says he didn’t accuse SK of lying because he doesn’t consider her a “source” regarding her own experiences— alex dunn (@dunndunndunn) July 24, 2014 That is emphatically, totally, and non-negotiably not what I said. It’s an utter lie. It’s someone representing something as true that he knows to be […]
Continue reading →This here is Alex Dunn, a PhD student in the Philosophy department at UCSB and someone who started a blog about Harry Potter. (“A blog for people who take silly things way too seriously.” What a novel idea on the internet!) Last night, Alex told some lies about me on Twitter. “his finest moment was […]
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